On China:

"Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Born Today:

Napoleon I en Costume du Sacre, François Gérard, 1805.

Coronation Mass for Napoleon I, composed by Giovanni Paisiello. Painting by Jacques-Louis David

Domine salvum fac imperatorem nostrum Napoleonem

et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimus te.Gloria Patri et Filio,

et Spiritui Sancto.

Sicut erat in principio

et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum.

Amen.

Colla Più Ricca Pompa

 The wedding of Napoleon I and Marie Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine, Georges Rouget, 1810.

Magister Dixit:

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Fragments of an Empire

Bored?

What About?

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Magister Dixit:

"Never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Magister Dixit:

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Magister Dixit:

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Hats of Style

On Marie Antoinette:

"The death of the Queen was a crime worse than the regicide"

- Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Book Nº 88

On Power:

"I LOVE POWER. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

By Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Magister Dixit:

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Rooms of Power

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."

by Napoleon Bonaparte

On Scala Regia:

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

by Napoleon, Emperor of the French

Magister Dixit:

"Imagination Rules The world."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

On Religion:

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French

Les Amoureux