Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.”
Statement while on St. Helena (3 March 1817)
“I don't know why, but the little bastard scares me.”
Laura Harrington http://www.laura-harrington.com/index4.html, in N http://www.pilgrimtheatre.org/performances/N/default.htm, portraying a comment by one of his generals when he showed up to command the army of Italy.
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud (9 January 1817); as quoted in The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity (1932) as translated by Norman Edwards, a translation of Journal de Sainte-Hélène 1815-1818 by General Gaspard Gourgaud
“What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.”
Conversation with Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (20 November 1816), Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, v. 4, p. 251 http://books.google.com/books?id=945jAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22fable%20agreed%20upon%22&pg=PA251. However, the phrase predates Napoleon. Helvétius attributes it to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, De l'esprit (1758), p. 443 http://books.google.com/books?id=N7g8AAAAcAAJ&vq=%22fable%20convenue%22&pg=RA1-PA443
Theodoros Kolokotronis, Kolokotronis Memoirs by Georgios Tertsetis
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“There is no subordination with empty stomachs.”
As attributed in Count Emmanuel de Las Cases, “Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena”, 1824.
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Hippolyte Taine in Napoleon's views on religion.
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Fuente: Archive https://archive.org/stream/jstor-25102177/25102177_djvu.txt