Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Folk-Tales of Napoleon: Napoleonder From the Russian; The Napoleon of the People From the French of Honor� De Balzac
Circumstantially with historical inci dents and events but it seems to me to be distinctly inferior to the Russian tale in power Of creative imagination, unity of conception, skill of artistic treatment, and depth of human inter est. The French peasant regards Napoleon merely as a great leader and conqueror, created to be the father of soldiers, and aided, if not directly sent, by God, to show forth the power and the glory Of France. The Russian peasant, more thought ful by nature as well as less excitable and combative in temperament, admits that Napoleon was sent on earth by God, but connects him with one of the deep problems of life by using him to show the divine nature of sympa thy and pity, and the cruelty, im.
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