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FOLK-TALES OF NAPOLEON
NAPOLEONDER
From the Russian
THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
From the French of Honore de Balzac
Translated With Introduction By
GEORGE KENNAN
1902
CONTENTS
NAPOLEONDER
THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
INTRODUCTION
Most of the literature that has its origin in the life and career of a
great man may be grouped and classified under two heads: history and
biography. The part that relates to the man's actions, and to the
influence that such actions have had in shaping the destinies of peoples
and states, belongs in the one class; while the part that derives its
interest mainly from the man's personality, and deals chiefly with the
mental and moral characteristics of which his actions were the outcome,
goes properly into the other. The value of the literature included in
these two classes depends almost wholly upon truth; that is, upon the
precise correspondence of the statements made with the real facts of the
man's life and career.
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