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The young man smiled sadly and added, “How ironic—he waged war against the English for ten long years and then died in his bed like anyone else.�
but they have something which replaces all that: fanaticism. Napoleon is the Mohammed of the West for all those vulgar but highly ambitious people. For them he’s not only a legislator and a master, he’s a symbol, the personification of equality.