“Peace ought to be the result of a system well considered, founded on the true interests of the different countries, honorable to each, and ought not to be either a capitulation or the result of a threat.”

— Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

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