Napoleon, n.Definitions

Napoleon (n.) finds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠at the height of his triumph that nothing in him has changed, and the discovery plunges him into despair.

Napoleon (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the last battle of revolutionary terror against the bourgeois society the Revolution itself proclaimed: he perfected the Terror by substituting permanent war for permanent revolution.

Napoleon (n.) scorned ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠businessmen as he scorned ideologists — and the Paris brokers took revenge with an artificial famine that delayed his Russian campaign until it was too late in the year.