"What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon."
— History

January 1, 1970

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Napoleon, Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, v. 4, p. 251. However, the phrase predates Napoleon. Helvétius attributes it to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, De l'esprit (1758), p. 443,