>[Napoleon] later discovered from his librarian that his senior officers were mostly reading novels... He pronounced that novels were "for ladies’ maids" and ordered the librarian, "Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else."Is he right, /lit/?
He also made all of his generals send him an email describing what they do at work every day, so that he could make them sweat over their jobs a little.
>>25615948>Ironically, historians note that Napoleon was being quite hypocritical, as he had packed forty novels—including several English ones translated into French—for his own personal reading pleasure during the very same campaign.
>>25615959He’d probably already read pretty much every relevant history book twice each. He was also Napoleon, meanwhile his senior officers weren’t.
>>25615969he was just tricking his anti-intellectual officers into reading history. ostensibly the same rhetoric works here.
>>25615948how did he know /lit/ centuries before we even existed? was he psychic?
>>25615948He also read a ton of novels, and identified with Werther. Wrote a romantic novel too.
>>25616018>identified with WertherThere goes my respect for Napoleon
>>25615959>>25616018That's why he lost to russia
>>25615969>He’d probably already read pretty much every relevant history book twice eachi aspire to be him
>>25615950Standard military procedure these days, but no doubt novel then. Telecom was in its infancy, ie Byron's daughter
Oh I love 19th century English novels. Lady Chasertonsmetley is in love with Lord colonel MacBibenballyboo but she is being courted by Sir Dinleytoon. What ever shall she do ?????
>>25616259I think he may have to stoically tolerate some cuckoldry my good dear a tee hee hee, ah well it is all for the gentle preservation of the estate.
Napoleon also wrote multiple novels himself, in his early 20s, even before becoming a general, and one of them even got famous and got a reedition etc. People know this, right?
>>25616356Cuckoldry is based, specially when blacks are the bvlls
>>25617853Well, they were talking about English literature, not so much the Arabian Nights.
>>25617853You genuinely should kill yourself.
>>25618001why do you guys keep on giving them (you)s?
