Folk-Tales of Napoleon: Napoleonder, and the Napoleon of the People
Folk-Tales of Napoleon: Napoleonder, and the Napoleon of the People
By Honoré de Balzac & Alexander Amphiteatrof
2 Jan, 2020
Contains two stories: Napoleonder, and The Napoleon of the People. First published in 1902. To the anthropologist and the student of human nature, the stories are extremely valuable as self-revelations of national character; and even to the historian
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Contains two stories: Napoleonder, and The Napoleon of the People. First published in 1902. To the anthropologist and the student of human nature, the stories are extremely valuable as self-revelations of national character; and even to the historian and the biographer, they have some interest as pieces of evidence of the profoundly deep impression made by Napoleon's personality upon two great peoples - the Russians and the French.
The Napoleon of the People was originally published in 1833 in The Country Doctor (Le Medicin de Campagne). It is a story told by Goguelat, an ex-soldier who served under Napoleon to a bunch of peasants. Less