Excerpt from The Real Martyr of St. Helena IN his thrilling narrative of the Moscow campaign of 1812, Eugene Labaume says of Napoleon that he will be for historians the riddle of: the human heart. But there is a greater enigma connected with his career, and that is the growth and persistency of the Napoleonic Legend, which is based upon an imaginary Napoleon that has no foundation in fact; a Napoleon drawn by himself, without the least resemblance to the real man. This fancy portrait, limned at St. Helena, depicts him as brimful of benevolence; the representative of liberalism; the emancipator of enslaved peoples; the sworn foe of despots; the regenerator of Europe who was perpetually ingeminating peace, but whose pacific aspirations were continually thwarted by the satanic machinations of the European Powers, prompted by the arch enemy of enlightenment - England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.