Famous quotes containing the words napoleon bonaparte, napoleon and/or bonaparte:
“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)
“Napoleon wanted to turn Paris into Rome under the Caesars, only with louder music and more marble. And it was done. His architects gave him the Arc de Triomphe and the Madeleine. His nephew Napoleon III wanted to turn Paris into Rome with Versailles piled on top, and it was done. His architects gave him the Paris Opera, an addition to the Louvre, and miles of new boulevards.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821)