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When Napoleon Met Goethe
October 7, 2016
In 1808, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. Each man admired the other, although Napoleon’s motives were not solely to greet the author of one of his favourite books.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte