/lit/ - Literature

>>22636627
All dark romance books

>>22636627
YWNBN

>>22636627
Crime and Punishment

>>22636627
Isn't democracy a big thing because of him? He was a retard

>>22636627
Watch 30 second tiktok edits over and over

>>22636805
What?

Ossian

>>22636805
Democracy is a big thing because of America.

>>22637627
Lol, the American back at promoting his Anglo-americanocentrist view of history no one agrees with except teenagers and other Ameritards.

>>22636627
Napoleon was said to voraciously consume hentai manga, so you should probably start reading that if you want to be like River Phoenix' less-talented brother.

Whatever gets you into West Point or an Ivy because your chances of making General aren’t good otherwise.

in most biographies about him he mostly just focused on learning math so maybe do that

>>22636805
no that was the guys before him
he was an emperor bro, that's not democracy

>>22637874
Back then, math was the basis of an education for military officers. It’s inconceivably however that he only read math textbooks.

>>22636627
He loved Young Werther. He even larped as him (like many other guys) and even brought the book with him on campaigns iirc. He would be into larping as Ryan Gosling's characters had he been born in our time.

>>22637874
> no that was the guys before him
he was an emperor bro, that's not democracy
Here's the stupid take of someone who never read a history book.
He might have been an emperor, but his ruled was justified by an actual constitution he wrote himself, and he was actually elected into his position by popular votes.
Nevertheless, he conquered all of Europe for no other reason than to bring legal constitutions and republicanism into those places. His empire saw the first blows on feudalism and monarchic Europe and gave birth to the avant-garde of the social revolutions of 1848.

>>22636627
He read constantly growing up; he spent what little money he had at military school on books.
He mainly read western classics, history, and books about military theory at the time. He also made sure to read up deeply on the geography and populations of any area he was going to invade and have a battle on. This was most important for his victories.

>>22636627
start with the corsicans

>>22637894
>It’s inconceivably however that he only read math textbooks.
Not exactly but the educatiion in maths and physics he received in military school consisted mainly in the Bézout textbooks for artillery officers

>>22637904
>Napoleon met Goethe on October 2, 1808 in the Governor’s Palace at Erfurt.
>I have been summoned to the Emperor for eleven o’clock in the morning. A fat chamberlain, Monsieur Pole, tells me to wait. The crowd disappears. I am introduced to Savary and Talleyrand. I am called into the Emperor’s study. At the same time, Daru has his presence announced. He is immediately brought in. This makes me hesitate. I am summoned a second time. I enter. The Emperor is seated at a large round table. He is eating breakfast. On his right, at some distance from the table, is Talleyrand; on his left, Daru, with whom he discusses taxes. The Emperor signals to me to approach. I remain standing in front of him at a suitable distance. After looking at me for a moment, he says to me: ‘You are a man.’ I bow my head. He says: ‘How old are you?’ ‘Sixty years.’ ‘You are well preserved. You have written some tragedies.’ I replied the bare essentials. Daru began to speak…. He added that I had translated some French works and, for example, Voltaire’s Mahomet. The Emperor said: ‘That is not a good work,’ and went on in detail about how it was indecorous for the conqueror of the world to paint such an unfavourable picture of himself. He then brought the conversation to Werther, which he must have studied in detail. After several perfectly appropriate observations, he mentioned a specific part and said to me: ‘Why did you do that? It is not natural.’ And he spoke at length on this and with perfect accuracy. I listened with a calm face, and I replied, with a smile of satisfaction, that I didn’t know whether anyone had ever made the same criticism, but that I found it perfectly justified, and that I agreed that one could find fault with this passage’s lack of authenticity. ‘But,’ I added, ‘a poet can perhaps be excused for taking refuge in an artifice which is hard to spot, when he wants to produce certain effects that could not be created simply and naturally.’ The Emperor seemed to agree with me; he returned to drama and made some very sensible remarks, as a man who had observed the tragic stage with a great deal of attention, like a criminal judge, and who felt very deeply how far French theatre had strayed from nature and truth.

>>22636805
Napleon was a Republican, but ultimately the Anglos and the English Civil war were responsible for the spread of democracy throughout Europe

>>22636805
You meant liberalism. Where all those big thinkers failed, Napoleon forced his worldview upon Europe. The sword is mightier than the pen.

>>22638040
They were ideas already present among the local population and largely practicated chiefly among the formerly Celtic populations of England and Switzerland, and among the Slavs, and among the Albanians, the ones able to mantain freedom in front of the nobilities, during the early Middle Ages already. It is not that democracy is a new idea, it is only that when the nobilities fell, the basis of the population made the old and traditional practices, until then secret in the places where feudalism was the most oppressive, publicly acceptable.

>>22637904
>>22638032
>After Goethe took his leave, Talleyrand wrote that Napoleon leaned over to him and said, “Voila un homme!” (“THAT is a man!”).

>>22637983
How is that not exactly? We know he read modern novels, Greco-Roman classics, poetry, and philosophy. He just did not read exclusively mathematics.

>At the École Militaire in Paris and as a young artillery officer, Napoleon continued to read classical scholars, as well as more recent French and Italian authors. He also read a number of English works in translation. An idea of his favourites might be judged by what he chose to bring with him during a leave of absence in Corsica in 1786-87. His brother Joseph recounted:[Napoleon] was then a passionate admirer of Jean-Jacques [Rousseau]; … a fan of the masterpieces of Corneille, Racine and Voltaire. He brought the works of Plutarch, Plato, Cicero, Cornelius Nepos, Livy and Tacitus, translated into French; and those of Montaigne, Montesquieu and Raynal. All of these works filled a trunk larger than the one that contained his toiletries. I don’t deny that he also had the poems of Ossian, but I do deny that he preferred them to Homer.

>>22637712
This is true, I dominate my friends and foe in any strategy game or board game

>>22638078
Sorry I misread

>>22636627
Books on trigonometry. Then the campaigns of Frederick the Great.

>>22637874
He was obsessed with classical antiquity and read extensively.

Definitely not just math

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