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Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. II)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de, 1766-1842· 2 chapters· 145,868 words

On another of these evenings, the Emperor was holding forth against the caprice of women: “Nothing,” said he, “more clearly indicates rank, education, and good breeding among them, than evenness of temper and the constant desire to please.” He added that they were bound by cir...

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On another of these evenings, the Emperor was holding forth against the caprice of women: “Nothing,” said he, “more clearly indicates rank, education, and good breeding among th...

2. ill. All these circumstances had concurred to cause interruptions, which

I took advantage of what he had just said, to represent to him that to dictate was, for him, the surest, the only remedy against _ennui_, the only way in which he could beguile...