valinaraii:This German print from 1849 is a variation on the story of Napoleon and the sleeping sent
valinaraii:This German print from 1849 is a variation on the story of Napoleon and the sleeping sentinel, a legend the exiled Emperor dismissed on St. Helena:The author evidently wishes to represent me in a favourable point of view; and he of course imagined that nothing could reflect greater credit on me than the story he has invented. He certainly wrote it with the view of doing me honour; but he knew not that I was totally incapable of the action he describes. I was too much fatigued for any such thing; and it is very probable that I should myself have fallen asleep before the sentinel -- source link
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