“Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?”

— Stendhal, book The Red and the Black

Napoléon était bien l'homme envoyé de Dieu pour les jeunes Français! Qui le remplacera?
Vol. I, ch. XVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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