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CHAPTER IX
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The contemplation of my fine little regiment1 of French military memoirs2 had brought me to the question of Napoleon himself, and you see that I have a very fair line dealing3 with him also. There is Scott's life, which is not entirely4 a success. His ink was too precious to be shed in such a venture. But here are the three volumes of the physician Bourrienne—that Bourrienne who knew him so well. Does any one ever know a man so well as his doctor? They are quite excellent and admirably translated. Meneval also—the patient Meneval—who wrote for untold6 hours to dictation at ordinary talking speed, and yet was expected to be legible and to make no mistakes. At least his master could not fairly criticize his legibility, for is it not on record that when Napoleon's holograph account of an engagement was laid before the President of the Senate, the worthy7 man thought that it was a drawn8 plan of the battle? Meneval survived his master and has left an excellent and intimate account of him. There is Constant's account, also written from that point of view in which it is proverbial that no man is a hero. But of all the vivid terrible pictures of Napoleon the most haunting is by a man who never saw him and whose book was not directly dealing with him. I mean Taine's account of him, in the first volume of "Les Origines de la France Contemporaine." You can never forget it when once you have read it. He produces his effect in a wonderful, and to me a novel, way. He does not, for example, say in mere9 crude words that Napoleon had a more than mediaeval Italian cunning. He presents a succession of documents—gives a series of contemporary instances to prove it. Then, having got that fixed10
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assassinate
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assassination
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diabolical
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leniency
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guardian
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forefathers
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conspicuous
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partisan
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Vogue
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heyday
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profess
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Christian
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savages
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chastely
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fanaticism
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supremacy
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