Two portraits of Napoleon as ordinary people imagined him, translated with an introduction by George Kennan. Napoleonder is a Russian folk legend of the conqueror retold by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov, and The Napoleon of the People is the passage from Balzac’s The Country Doctor in which an old soldier tells the Emperor’s life as a marvellous tale to villagers gathered in a barn.
A curious and entertaining pairing for anyone interested in how legend grows around a great man. Download the free EPUB.