The Personality of Napoleon
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With Stein. Napoleon had the failings of an intense and resolute na- ture, but in his best days he was free from the pettinesses of weaker men. It is questionable whether he took enough interest in men ever to feel deeply about them. For the most part he regarded them as the instruments of his will, valuing them in proportion to their efficiency, sharpening their edge by appeals to love of France or of glory, working them hard, but not so hard as he worked himself, and throwing them aside on pr...oof of incompetence. He did not hate them, any more than one hates a blunt 1 Mollien, M ems. , ii. , 221-223. 13 194 Personality of Napoleon knife. He sharpened it, or threw it away. On one occasion he soundly rated his Minister Cham- pagny for not having ready a report which involved long and arduous researches in the Archives. On Champagny explaining that the chief archivist, Hauterive, was ill, Napoleon turned about sharply towards a councillor who was suffering terribly from the gout, and said, with an untranslatable phrase : " Well, when clerks are ill, they go to the hospital, and one gets others.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
With Stein. Napoleon had the failings of an intense and resolute na- ture, but in his best days he was free from the pettinesses of weaker men. It is questionable whether he took enough interest in men ever to feel deeply about them. For the most part he regarded them as the instruments of his will, valuing them in proportion to their efficiency, sharpening their edge by appeals to love of France or of glory, working them hard, but not so hard as he worked himself, and throwing them aside on pr...oof of incompetence. He did not hate them, any more than one hates a blunt 1 Mollien, M ems. , ii. , 221-223. 13 194 Personality of Napoleon knife. He sharpened it, or threw it away. On one occasion he soundly rated his Minister Cham- pagny for not having ready a report which involved long and arduous researches in the Archives. On Champagny explaining that the chief archivist, Hauterive, was ill, Napoleon turned about sharply towards a councillor who was suffering terribly from the gout, and said, with an untranslatable phrase : " Well, when clerks are ill, they go to the hospital, and one gets others.
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