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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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hey call it divine or diabolic, accord-ing to the feeling he inspires in them; but, in reality, thequalities he showed in his career as a statesman and law-giver are very human ones. His stout grasp on subjects;his genius for hard work; his power of seeing everythingthat should be done, and doing it himself; his unparalleledaudacity, -explain his civil achievements. The comprehension he had of questions of governmentwas really the result of serious thinking. He had reflectedfrom his first days at Brienne; and the active interest he hadtaken in the Revolution of 1789 had made him familiar withmany social and political questions. His career in Italy,which was almost as much a diplomatic as a military career,had furnished him an experience upon which he had foundedmany notions. In his dreams of becoming an Oriental law-giver he had planned a system of government of which hewas to be the centre. Thus, before the i8th Brumaire madehim the Dictator of France, he had his ideas of centralized
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NAPOLEON WHILE FIRST CONSUL OF FRANCE. Engraved in 1801 by Audouin, after a design by Bouillon. 130 RETURN OF THE EMIGRES 131 government all formed, just as, before he crossed the GreatSaint Bernard, he had fought, over and over, the battle ofMarengo, with black- and red-headed pins stuck into agreat map of Italy spread out on his study floor. His habit of attending to everything himself explainsmuch of his success. No detail was too small for him, notask too menial. If a thing needed attention, no matterwhose business it was, he looked after it. Reading lettersonce before Madame Junot, she said to him that such workmust be tiresome, and advised him to give it to a secretary. Later, perhaps, he said, Now it is impossible; I mustanswer for all. It is not at the beginning of a return toorder that I can afford to ignore a need, a demand. He carried out this policy literally. When he went on ajourney, he looked personally after every road, bridge, publicbuilding, he passed, and his letter

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