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A full-scale reconstruction of the eventful one hundred days following Napoleon's escape from exile on Elba examines his march across France, the rebuilding of his army, and his epic confrontation with Wellington at Waterloo.
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"Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind." Gloucester in Lear (IV, 1)
"Humanity must perforce prey on itself Like monsters of the deep." Albany in Lear (IV, 2)
"I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and Montaignes, that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. . . . But I have always found that rogues would be uppermost." Thomas Jefferson
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." Thomas Jefferson
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In memory of my grandmother, Fanny Schwab Stoler, 1890-1938 And my aunt, Rose Stoler Ellison, 1912-1959
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Armand de Caulaincourt, Due de Vicence, Grand Equerry and Imperial French Foreign Minister, was appalled by what he saw as the agitated valet, Pelard, opened the door of Napoleon's dimly lit bedroom at three o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, the thirteenth of April 1814.
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"Let us reflect on his enormous abuse of power, on his violated faith, and shameless disregard of all law and justice. . . . Great he unquestionably was, great in the resources of a misguided mind, great in the conception and execution of evil, great in mischief, like the pestilence; great in desolation, like the whirlwind. . . . Awful indeed will be the sentence of history [on his reign]; but when will posterity finally be a disinterested tribunal? When will the time arrive that Europe will have put off mourning his crimes?"
A full-scale reconstruction of the eventful one hundred days following Napoleon's escape from exile on Elba examines his march across France, the rebuilding of his army, and his epic confrontation with Wellington at Waterloo.
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