Excerpt from A Dictionary of Napoleon and His Times

The collection in dictionary form of the material, historical and personal, te lating to the most significant and arresting figure of the modern world will certainly appear to those best qualified to judge to be a task of hopeless magnitude and complexity and, indeed, the difficulties in the way of the perfect accomplish ment of such a collection are almost insurmountable in view of the unexampled mass of literature, good, bad, and indifferent, which has grown up around the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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