Greatness 'hås itsbeautiés, but only in retrospect
imagination": thuswrote General BonapartetQGeneral Moreauelq
-1800. His observation helps to explain-why the world, only afew years
after sighing with relief at its delivery from the ogre, began to worship
him as the greatest mprvOfmodern times. Napoleon had barely left the
scene when the fjtteen years that he had carved out of world history to
create his glyypseåmed scarce)y believable. Only the scars of the war
veterawåKffthe empty places in the widows' beds seemed to attest
the reality of those years, and time soon eliminated even these silent
witnesses. Whal remained, in retrospect and in the imagination,
legend and symbol. — J. Christopher Herold
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