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Week 24 Recap: Napoleon
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Week 24 Recap: Napoleon

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The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812

Here in our first week of Volume III, Tolstoy gave us an inside look at his feelings about history, “great men,” and Napoleon specifically. There will be a lot about Napoleon in Volume III, so I’ll be doing some deeper dives into this elusive character in the next month or s…

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