"When I was young, I was revolutionary from ignorance and ambition. At the age of reason, I have followed its counsels and my own instinct, and I crushed the Revolution."
— French Revolution

January 1, 1970

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Napoleon, remarks to Klemens von Metternich, recorded in Klemens von Metternich, 'Napoleon Bonaparte. A Portrait' (1820), quoted in Memoirs of Prince Metternich 1773–1815. Vol. I, ed. Prince Richard Metternich (1880), p. 282