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Aphorisms and thoughts / Napoleon Bonaparte ; selected by Honore de Balzac ; translated by Charles D. Zorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bonaparte, Napoleon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, 1769-1821--Quotations.
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey, [England] : Alma Classics, 2016.
- Summary:
- Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honor de Balzac set himself the pains-taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged into four themes (covering social life, the military arts, the exercise of power and the teachings of experience and misfortune), Napoleon's pithy pills of wisdom - often Machiavellian, cynical, dry and sometimes cruel - offer a unique insight into the mind of a man who prided himself on preferring action over thought and the sword over the pen, and conjure up one of the most eminent and influential historical figures of all time.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 10, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9780714546285
- 0714546283
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