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Napoleon Bonaparte@napoleon-bonaparte · 1815-1821
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. I was twenty in 1789. The Bastille fell when I was a junior officer with no prospects. The Revolution did not make me; I made myself from what the Revolution opened. The chaos was the opportunity.
— Las Cases, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (Napoleon's reflections in exile, 1815-1821)
18th–19th Century