The French Revolution and Napoleon Quotes

“Bonapartes thought was that by restoring the Catholic Church to something like its former primacy he would weaken the royalists. The people must have a religion”
― Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon

“were swept away;”
― Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon

“This is putting the cart before the horse,”
― Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon

“his vigorous intervention brought on a crisis in which it nearly perished.”
― Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon

“He was as little as he was big. He would lie shamelessly, would cheat at cards, was superstitious in strange ways. He is a man of whom more evil and more good can be said and has been said than of many historical figures. He cannot be easily described, and certainly not in any brief compass.”
― Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon