History Quotes / NapoleonBonaparte

-->-- '''Creator/StanleyKubrick''', on his fascination with Napoleon[[note]]He had planned a {{Biopic}} on his life but never quite managed to make it since the scale he envisioned it was bigger than any studio could allow[[/note]]

->''"His downfall was gigantic, proportionally to his glory. Both befuddle the mind. When in the presence of such a prodigious career, judgement is split between blame and admiration. Napoleon left France crushed, invaded, emptied of blood and courage, smaller than when he grabbed it, condemned to bad borders the vice of which hasn't been fixed, exposed to Europe's mistrust, all of which the country still carried the burden of a century later. But one shouldn't rule out the prestige he gave to out armies, the awareness he gave once and for all to the nation of its incredible aptitudes at war and the renown of power the homeland gained, the echo of which still reverberates."''

-->-- ""'UsefulNotes/CharlesDeGaulle'''.

-->-- '''Eric Hobsbawm'''.

« Sa chute fut gigantesque, en proportion de sa gloire. Celle-ci et celle-là confondent la pensée. En présence d’une aussi prodigieuse carrière, le jugement demeure partagé entre le blâme et l’admiration. Napoléon a laissé la France écrasée, envahie, vidée de sang et de courage, plus petite qu’il ne l’avait prise, condamnée à de mauvaises frontières dont le vice ne s’est point redressé, exposée à la méfiance de l’Europe, dont, après plus d’un siècle, elle porte encore le poids ; mais faut-il compter pour rien l’incroyable prestige dont il entoura nos armes, la conscience donnée, une fois pour toutes, à la nation de ses incroyables aptitudes guerrières, le renom de puissance qu’en recueillit la patrie et dont l’écho se répercute encore. »

-->--''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess''

! Others

-> ''"I may have been called 'a modern Attila' and 'a Robespierre on horseback' by the other sovereigns; but if they would search their hearts, they would know better. Had I really been that, I would perhaps be reigning still. But one thing is certain: had I been such, [[KillEmAll they all would long since have ceased to reign]]."''

-->--Music/TheDivineComedy, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwzhrdzI8V0 Napoleon Complex]]

-->--'''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'''