Napoleon and Napoleon Era : Through His Correspondence

These letters are selected from J.M. Thompson\'s book published by B.B.O in 1934. It also includes a page on autographs of Napoleon. Not all the Napoleon\'s letters are a self revealing kind. In youth he had few confidents, in middle age he had little to confide. In the stress of business and war he soon shed the idealism of a patriot, the fatalism of the revolutionary, and the romanticism of the lovers- Any sense he had of the beauty, the pathos and humour of life was coarsened by flattery and success. You will notice all this and more while reading this book. He declares, exhorts, abuses, persuades, even charms, but always in the interest of policy and to gain an end. He is wise, clear-sighted eloquent, heroic but hardly ever a human being in repose. Yet you will see, these letters of Napolean remain by far his finest portrait.