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Mais Esperto que o Diabo: O mistério revelado da liberdade e do sucesso (Portuguese Edition)
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Napoleon befriend the Regiment who watch over Longwood House. Napoleon have some small talks with them using Las Cases (the guy who wrote the Memorial) as a translator, I know he gets pretty well with the scottish troops to whom he flattered the ego, spoke of the Auld Alliance, Celtic History and their reputation of great warrior. Hudso... See more
Saint Helena
Dans ses fantasmes de domination et de toute-puissance, il lui arrivait maintenant de s'identifier à Napoléon. Il admirait cet homme qui avait mis l'Europe à feu et à sang, qui avait entraîné à la mort des centaines de milliers d'êtres humains sans même l'excuse d'une idéologie, d'une croyance, d'une conviction quelconque. Contrairement à Hitler, c
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
Napoleon shared Paine’s stance and, early on in his rule, was the first Western leader openly to begin instituting what he was to term a system of ‘carrières ouvertes aux talents’, ‘careers open to talent’. ‘I made most of my generals de la boue,’ he proudly remarked on St Helena at the end of his life. ‘Whenever I found talent, I rewarded it.’ The
... See moreAlain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
On Napoleon:
"An infinite capacity for taking pains," "an intuitive sense," "an indomitable will to power," and "firmness of action"
D’un point de vue tactique, Napoléon avait berné l’ennemi. La feinte était une gifle, un insolent désaveu. Il soulignait les insuffisances du commandement russe. Si Koutouzov et Tchitchagov avaient lanterné à lancer leurs assauts, c’est qu’ils craignaient encore le roi prolétaire. Aucun d’eux ne voulait s’opposer frontalement à lui. Napoléon contin
... See moreSylvain Tesson • Berezina (French Edition)
Finally, through some combination of convincing, cajolery, and perhaps promises, the associates persuaded him to stand aside and allow Hill—who was already handling supply and other matters—to take over the supervision of construction. Assigning the direct work to a favorite contractor, David Robbins, Hill now entered one of the most dynamic phases
... See moreMichael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
He remains the foremost architect of political liberalism.