J. Christopher Herold

Quotes

• “The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinc...”
• “Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his famil...”
• “Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong po...”
• “Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.”