Folk-Tales of Napoleon by Honoré de Balzac and Alexander Amphiteatrof
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Folk-Tales of Napoleon
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Title: Folk-Tales of Napoleon The Napoleon of the People; Napoleonder
Author: Honoré de Balzac and Alexander Amphiteatrof
Release Date: February 25, 2004 [EBook #11278]
Language: English
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FOLK-TALES OF NAPOLEON
NAPOLEONDER From the Russian
THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE From the French of Honoré de Balzac
Translated With Introduction By GEORGE KENNAN
1902
CONTENTS
NAPOLEONDER THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
INTRODUCTION
Most of the literature that has its origin in the life and career of a great man may be grouped and classified under two heads: history and biography. The part that relates to the man's actions, and to the influence that such actions have had in shaping the destinies of peoples and states, belongs in the one class; while the part that derives its interest mainly from the man's personality, and deals chiefly with the mental and moral characteristics of which his actions were the outcome, goes properly into the other. The value of the literature included in these two classes depends almost wholly upon truth; that is, upon the pr