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french and francophone community of the dc area since 2010. we have 3000 people -- books in frank -- french language and a few in english. we host events throughout the year in kensington, and we partner with the french embassy for events elsewhere in the dc area. the director is here tonight. welcome, sarah. i believe we have someone from the french embassy, as well. welcome. so please stay informed with us on our programming. and so our store allows, for a little more than our beloved books. when we have larger events here in kensington, we are lucky to have neighboring shops like this. thank you for inviting guests into your beautiful space. everything is for sale, by the way. two years ago, a courteous man walked into the store down the

street and asked for the classics section. i forgot he was there because he was so quiet and that was until he came to the register to pay and he bought a few books. he asked me to order a copy of homer's odyssey and iliad, which i was ashamed i didn't have in stock at the time it i have to take first and last names for our order -- orders. when he said his last name, it rang a bell, as you can imagine. he has since been back a couple of times, and on one occasion tell me about a book he was working on on napoleon's literary passions, which i thought was very exciting and i said, please let us carry it and host him for a talk when it was published, which he agreed to. so it was very exciting to be here tonight to see that come

to fruition, even though we are a little jealous that it was published in the uk first, but we are so honored to be the first indie physical bookstore, i believe, to carry it in u.s. publications. yes. so welcome louis sarkozy. lewis was raised in france but as a young teen, he came to the united states. he studied philosophy and history at nyu and earned a masters degree, came to washington, and went to emerick and university for his masters degree in international relations. he currently resides in bethesda with his wife, natalie. and i just learned, two dogs. one named fazma.

he is a co-author with his mother on the book conversations and disagreements. he has published articles on a range of issues including religion and politics in the french and u.s. press. he has also been a commentator to talk about american politics on french tv and he is author of this book on napoleon. about which, british historian and journalist, and member of the house of lords says, quote, this is a very ambitious book. nothing less than a chronological journey into the intellectual life of napoleon bonaparte. it's an in-depth investigation of everything we know he read

and wrote. it is a prospect that would sound the most eminent professors, yet it has been undertaken by a man in his mid- 20s as his first book. second book. and then he says, must impotently, and it succeeds triumphantly. it is fantastic. interviewing lewis will be --. she has worked with us on several occasions, moderating offense. last but not least, well, c- span.

we will have some questions from the audience. we will have copies of the book available for purchase. the floor is yours. >> [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> sorry. it's in english tonight. i spent a month in france so my brain is in french right now. i wanted to talk about where are you coming from? you are the son of former french president, nicolas sarkozy. let's go back 15 years, and how your childhood as the son of the french president impacted the way you grew an

interest towards anything military. >> sure. i'm sorry if i disappoint some of you with this answer, but as a child, at least, while my father was in politics, i paid no attention to napoleon or french history. i remember when i was a child, by the private kitchens of the french white house, was where i stored all of my legos, and it is a room that i only recently learned was called the winter salon. it is in that room where napoleon bonaparte signed his second abdication. 11-year-old me didn't care at all. about where he was placing his legos. i was oblivious to the magnificent history of the place where i was living. it is only much later, after i did my stent, as you mentioned, at military academy, that i started to take a deeper interest in things military, and even later, when i studied history, at nyu, that i realized my complete lack of education on napoleon bonaparte, and thus started a

six or seven your obsession with the man. in many ways, this is an attempt to get him out of my system to stop thinking and talking about him because he was an all-encompassing figure for me. you are at that age, 16 and 17, and you are looking for hero. you are looking for a model. and that is smack on the time when i stumbled upon napoleon and when one looks for heroes, few match the caliber of that man, who is not all good, obviously, and i go to great length to talk about the bad, but in many ways, he was the incarnation of everything that is human. the greatest qualities. the greatest creativity, the greatest courage, the greatest energy, and the worst faults. the greatest ego, and the most catastrophic mistakes. it is a massive paradox and a fascinating figure. right when i turned that age, i started a relationship with him

that lasts to this day and culminated in this humble book. >> so i talked to a few of you here, and i feel like we have a lot of passionate people about napoleon. but so why is he so fascinating to you? >> well, it is just that, he rained in france for around 15 years. a relatively short amount of time. in those 15 years, he created not only the modern french state, but left legal, military, political, philosophical, musical impacts, that reverberated throughout the world and fundamentally changed the way europe and the world looks today. this is a man whose mind was all-encompassing. this is why he was so fun to write about. this is a man who during a dinner party would walk in, would run to the nearest

mathematician and impress him with his knowledge of equations. he would do the same with chemists. he would talk musical theory. with composers, he impressed goethe. he is probably the greatest military commander of all time. he is at least in the conversation. he created institutions that survived to this day. he was a great builder, building the temples, and the monuments. that supposed to be his spirit rushing behind me there. but also, the useful stuff, the stuff nobody sees. the sewers. the collection systems. he's the one behind numbered streets. 1 million different facets that this man touched. in 15 years. what is perhaps the most amazing facet of his life is this is a man who is born of unremarkable and low, almost impoverished nobility in a

bathwater -- corsica. it was and it sort of remains a backwater. this is a man born to almost no future or a very unremarkable future. it was likely at his birth that the bonaparte name would be confined to dark parts of history. through unbelievable luck in genius, he governs not only france, but europe, and is it for 15 years like stripping, shooting star, limits everything around him. and then, he loses everything. so i had the chance to talk to some ceos about the subject in london, and i asked them, could you tell me if you know of a man who sort of has the ultimate self-made man story or self-made woman story. came from nothing, built this

fortune 500 world-renowned number one company and within 10 years lost everything. and no, nobody could come up with a name. that virtually does not exist in the business or historical record. when you are looking for drama, i mean, his life was just unbelievable. just imagine, on his final exile, right, going from living in the great houses, committing the most powerful armies, at the head of the most crazy physical resources in human history to not even being able to talk to his own son, to not even being able to order the books he wanted. to not be able to drink the wine he wanted. a complete downfall, perhaps unmatched in world history. it is heartbreaking and bewildering. if you wrote the script of this guys life and read it to somebody who had never heard of him, you would say, okay. what you think of this story? he would answer something like, it's unbelievable. it's a bit too much. how could this happen? it is a time when social

mobility is practically nonexistent. it is more amazing than anything a hollywood writer could produce. that is why i was so drawn to him and why so many others are drawn to him. this is a very long-winded answer. my apologies but i should say that my book is one of innumerable books on him. there have been more books written about napoleon than any other figure in world history, so we count a book and a half a day every day since his death in 1821. it comes to a couple hundred thousand texts. and i think that is why. the man was a complete mystery. a complete vortex. and to this day, he remains a profound mystery. >> so, like you said, lots of books, but you found one niche. his library. how did you have the idea to write about his library and why did you choose to research his library?

>> so it is -- it is not completely unique. other works have dealt with this subject. there are a number of feces that do with literary culture. my friend wrote about the imperial libraries he built, the physical places. i wanted to write a sort of biography of his life through books. from his earliest influences when he was reading plutarch and he is nine years old, and he is dreaming of becoming alexander the great, to the great libraries he had built through the egyptian campaign -- and i'm sure we can talk about it -- a great literary expedition only to the end, when, you know, reading is all that he has left after he lost kingdoms. he lost the empire. he lost the army's print books were the only thing that remained. i read the work of english and american authors, and i thought, it was a good idea to try to etch out a little niche, and not focus specifically on

the egyptian campaign -- to not only focus on the word libraries, as some of you may know, he brought books with them on campaign and his books gave him an immeasurable advantage when he fought wars, but rather, to do everything. and also, and this was very important for me, to do something that was academically at least survivable. academically doable, whereas, i did my homework. i read the literature, but also something that is accessible to the general public. if you have never read about napoleon, if you don't know who the guy is, if you think he is some short guy with an ego problem, you can still pick up the book and know how to cross your t's and.the eyes and understand what is going on. that was the humble mission that i set for myself, and i hope you all will tell me if it succeeded. >> let's talk a little bit more about your research, because you spent years doing research to write that book.

can you tell us, where did you go, what did you do? how did you do it? >> sure. well, it was a horrible experience. the mass of the bibliography is infinite. i mean, this is something that is very scary. notably, for a non-historian, as i am. nonprofessional history but i have a history degree, but i'm not a history professor, nor am i paid to publish works. this is more of a passion than anything else. so you start to write something and you try to be authoritative, but the massive bibliography just means that you know you missed something. on many occasions during the writing of this book, you write a page or aircraft and you think it is solid and it sort of fits. it's not horribly written, only to find something in the sources later that negate your chapter or your page or paragraph. i can't tell you how many times

that happened, to the time that my publisher was asking me because i was at year laid on the manuscript. i still didn't think it was going to happen just because of the mass of that bibliography, but i was helped. i will be honest with you. i'm a non-historian. i'm a young guy. i'm a non-historian and i'm going to approach some of these eminent historians in france who have studied this subject and say, i'm writing something. they are going to say, who is this guy, trying to claim a name for himself in this field? i was a little afraid of bringing this project to them, and i could not have been more wrong. the historians, whether it is jaylen's -- they have welcomed me with open arms.

they physically took me to the archives when i didn't know where i was going. they brought out the manuscript for me, and just guided me throughout the whole process. so this is a very open community, contrary to my own preconceptions and without them, the book would look very much indeed. >> so through all of your findings, is there one thing that really surprised you when you saw it and read it? >> the man is full of surprises, but there is one that stands out. if we stopped someone on the street, you get something about work, something about politics. one thing i discovered in my research that few people know is to make that facet of him a note -- he was a great lover of romance, and not any romance. sort of rosewater, corny, overdone romance. he loved those things. we have scenes of him. his own secretaries didn't believe it -- when he is presiding over a battle -- there are tens of thousands of casualties. cavalry charges -- there's

blood and gore everywhere. he retires into his tent and reads a love story about a swiss noblewoman falling in love with her young tutor, and he is crying over it. this can't be happening. in fact, he was made fun of at the time, when his final campaign library was captured after the battle of waterloo, it was sacked by the prussians and delivered to the english, and when they opened the books, yes, you have history. history for him was the mother subject. he called it the only true philosophy, history, but about 30, 40% were romances. they were shocked that such a great warlord was reading novels about mary antoinette's ladies in waiting and commenting on the verse affairs of the court of louis xvi. it also made him a human figure because even as the writer, the historian tries to get through the propaganda, whether his or

the opponents propaganda, you are always caught up in these images. with him, it is so poignant and all-encompassing. the messaging was so potent that it is very hard to pierce through. that is one way i was able to pierce through to the manfred knowing his love of romance and the conversations he had with friends and subordinates about romance and women, specifically, for which he held a lifelong admiration, but was universally bad at talking to. he was a terribly bad lover. we have this humorous scene. he's in italy. i think he is in rome. he's at the opera, and he falls completely head over heels over the lead opera singer of the night, so as the first consul urges for him to be brought back to the imperial apartments we know this because there is a young [ speaking in a non- english language ] at the door. he walks in with his lady and

walks out. exactly 2 1/2 minutes later. he quips that one must make love as one makes work, and this port opera singer was left ruminating on the experience. disappointingly fast lever, but nevertheless, great lover of romance and romantic novels, so that was definitely a surprise. >> remember when we talked about the movie that came out last year. pretty controversial because some people really loved it here. so bear that in mind. >> i'm sorry to hear that some people here have terrible movie tastes. >> tell us, what did you think about the movie? >> i should preface this by saying, i am a huge, lifelong fan of ridley scott. i thought kingdom of heaven was a masterpiece. not in terms of accuracy, but in terms of what makes a great

movie. gladiator was a pillar of my youth and one of the things that got me into studying antiquity. the man is incredibly talented. i think with napoleon, there is a huge problem. he completely dropped the ball. i think when you compare these movies, they are not at all the same. and i really don't want to say that it's because of historical accuracy. another guy that is going to sit here -- my wife might contradict me on this point, but pause the movie every five minutes and say the uniform is not right. it is a movie, and ridley scott, he said, if you want to get history, read a book. i'm not here to make a history. i'm here to make good movies. i thought it was a bad movie. i thought there was virtually no character development beyond napoleon and josephine. they put this color filter. everything is blue gray, yet anyone who has seen a painting of the napoleonic wars and is that color is one of the most important facets. the uniform was splendid.

they carried a helmet with a leopard's mane. i mean, everything went to work. dressed today as we would go to a gala dinner. none of that showed in the movie. i thought the battle scenes were disappointing, too. we have cavalry charges, but it is 20 guys running around in a field. some of the cavalry charges of that era, we have records, whether they are true or not is another conversation, but we have records telling us that people have died of a heart attack upon witnessing it. they are clad in the most beautiful attire and armor you can imagine, charging at a full gallop, shoulder to shoulder. the earth shook for miles. the sound was inevitable. and yet, we have on-screen, 50 guys running in a disorderly mob? i thought the potential was huge, and the end result was a complete disaster. i thought it was incredibly vulgar, too. it made it seem like this sort of frustrated, violent, petty man, who got to his position

mostly by luck. and listen, look has a huge part to play in the napoleonic story, but the man inspired an entire generation -- almost, literally, to run to their debts for him. he had an electric charisma that even his most dire enemies commented on. his most staunch enemies said, he has all these faults. terrible guy. we need to get rid of him. but by god, what the man accomplished -- he would walk into a room -- he was not that short. relatively average height. he would captivate people with his eyes, with the pace of his speech. i mean, he fascinated an entire generation. i thought that was the one mission the movie had to succeed at. even if you fail in accuracy, you fill in the history, at least show us or try to show us the man. i thought it did not.

>> are. my last question for tonight. what is next? you got napoleon out of your system? >> not so much, as it turns out, but a little bit more, yes. so in terms of books, you mentioned. i am thinking about -- i am currently under contract for a book on my other nation, the united states, and it will be a military history. what period, i don't exactly know yet, but it looks like that is the subject i'm going to gravitate towards next. but as anybody -- and as i hope you will, if anybody comes to our house, one day, you will see on every wall, and every shelf, and every carpet, there is a trace of the emperor everywhere. and i hope now that you can purchase the book at the counter. there will be a piece of napoleon in your house, too. >> thank you. >> thank you.

>> we can take some questions from the audience. >> don't be shy. >> we are going to go over there. >> yes sir? >> i haven't read your book yet , i'm looking forward to it. maybe this is in your book. was he taken? >> what a great question. to some of you that don't know, and by the way, this was one of the great fun parts of the research. you come across all these great literary figures of the 17 and 1800s that today nobody knows about and are completely forgotten, but were, you know, the stephen king of the time. bestsellers of the time. he is one of them. napoleon was obsessed with what he thought was an antique, celtic bart. a scottish homer. a poet who told stories of great

celtic warriors, et cetera. napoleon and his generation.this was a legitimate story. it was a scottish homer. we know that he was a fabrication. it was really written by a near contemporary who died a little before he was born called james mcpherson. it was a great mystery because if he had been honest, he would today be considered one of the greatest poets of the 1700s. instead, he lied. he said he found these stories. he heard about them in folktales, and that he just translated them. you are completely right. he believed it through most of his life. on st. helena, he meets a scottish noblewoman and they have a conversation about --. is it true that he is not a true boat? it looks like it was an

invitation but he pushes it off and he seems to not care, indicating that he loved the quality of the work, rather than the legit personality of the author, but he loved it so much that virtually every one of his libraries -- the palatial libraries -- he had a copy of his poems. he had many paintings commissioned. if some of you are in paris and you walk through one of his libraries, specifically the one at his house just to the east of paris, you will see paintings of him everywhere. he fell for that fabrication. >> yes. >> i have a question for you. you said something amazing about him reading romance books and i was wondering, in your research, did you also read authors who wrote novels in which napoleon -- and of course , the greatest novel of all time is or and peace, by leo

tolstoy. did you read that? did you read the russian authors? >> that is such a great point. the problem is that it was so often repeated that napoleon loved romances that any fiction after him, would others read the same thing? is this a napoleon-esque image that the author is building or not? this is the specialty of my friend who focuses on the napoleonic legend in literature. i would counsel you to go to his work, but you are right. you see the napoleonic template, the romantic hero, is very much a napoleonic image now, the guy who charges into the fray, who is able to do the dirty, the battles, et cetera, but is also very emotional and sits down to read --. it is

about a young swiss noblewoman who falls in love with her tutor and her family is trying to get her married off to a noble man. it is forbidden love. it is a story of suicide. one of the reasons he was fascinated by that -- it is unique for him to be loving those books. he is very much a child of his age because at that time, in the early 1800s, the novel had existed.much new. he had only introduced it and popularized it a couple decades before the plan's birth. so readers who were used to the dryer texts of the enlightenment, very serious treatises, suddenly these levels where you talk about adultery, you talk about suicide, to them it was the equivalent of seeing a super gory hollywood movie for us.

it was very, very revolutionary. so napoleon, he is young and falls into those books , is very much a part of that generation who is completely shocked at finding the genre. some people read that and thought it was too much and for sort of disgusted by it. you very much fed into it and read it throughout his life. circle. >> in looking at the book that influences thinking, was there anything you found that suggested why he was so taken with the idea of attacking russia? which, you know, as i -- as a ruler of france, sprain, pressure, etc., that is all kind of very much in the tradition. and if there is obviously one decision he made, it led to his downfall, was probably attacking russia. was there anything you found in his books that suggested why he became taken with the idea that

the french army should march east? >> know. but i will tell you something else. he invaded russia -- this is one of the most hotly debated issues, not only in napoleonic studies but in european history, because he thought he could beat them, he wanted it to be a short war, he had beat the russians before at friedland. he thought they were an unprofessional army. he did not believe in russian generals, he thought it was going to be short war. he said i want to fight within 10 days of the border, win a great battle. it is a great allusion, he is entirely wrong and it leads to the greatest disaster in military history. is about a paradox? the greatest military genius of all time provides and is directly responsible for the greatest military calamity in human history. that is enough for meditation for an entire lifetime. i will tell you something else, he read and had with him in russia, had with him at the kremlin when he stayed over there, voltaire's biography of

charles xii, the king of sweden, who had a century before, invaded russia. the russians had refused to give him the battle, had lured him into russian territory, had waited for the winter to come. of course it was a worst winter in four centuries and charles's troops were decimated and he was beaten and killed in russia. napoleon read that book, talked about it to his subordinates while in the kremlin. and while committing the very same mistake that he was reading about in charles xii. in fact, his diplomatic advisor and former ambassador to russia says you should read that book, he says i have read it already and yet why did he not heed the lessons that is evidently asked claimed? that is another thing for the other, the enthusiast tears his hearers out. he had the book with him in the kremlin. the book which screamed that it was a terrible idea to beat russia. that this was the russian

strategy to lure them in, the scorched-earth policy that they were avoiding the big battle, they were waiting for the winter to turn. exactly what happened. so this is one of those times as i say in the book where his readings not only did not influence him but should have an fundamentally did not. as you point out, it is probably the one single event that most led to his downfall. >> thank you, sir. >> well, i have a question. and you give us a number, do you know how the books read through his life? >> red? no. we know how many books he had amassed, so he built libraries in all of his residences, and all of his great palaces, the traveling libraries i mentioned, the war libraries that he carried with him on campaign. these grew to encompass over 60,000 volumes by his downfall. now that was -- and it pains me to say this, it is shocking to say this, but it was insufficient for him because of his literary ambitions. so by the end, by 1811, 1812, he makes plans -- and this is true, we have the text. he makes plans to have a copy of every book published in

europe. in sweden, denmark, spain, italy, france, everywhere. in the original language and in french. he wanted to create in france a sort of literary deposit of world knowledge. he wanted to create libraries for the princes he imagined would come after him of his dynasty. he created what we call the great libraries for his ministers and diplomats and advisors. and also the small or private libraries for his family and friends and colleagues. his private colleagues. so he is military ambition was all-encompassing. his literary ambition is virtually unheard of. so, 60,000 is the number we sort of gift for all of the libraries, he read, it is only guesswork, we don't know also, he had this detestable habit as a bookworm, his many librarians, i talk about them because they were amazing characters of their own rights, i talk about them in the book, people like who were trained and educated to bring him new releases. so you would get this big

wicker basket and every night he would get the new releases and he would get one, flip through one or two pages. if you found something he didn't like he would chuck it in the fireplace or out the window. in fact, to go back to russia, a russian soldier picked up a copy of russo's confessions in the snow that is to this day in the lithuanian library that was thrown out of napoleon's carriage during the retreat. of all the books to throw out. can you imagine, this is really the image of -- that is in my mind more often than i would like to admit it. this probably shoeless, toothless russian cossack, just got done killing french people, find a copy of russo's confessions in the snow and picks it up and has the presence of mind to keep it and it survives two centuries and is today in the lithuanian library. if that does not exemplify napoleon's downfall, then i don't know what does.

yes sir? >> one or two more. >> my question is on the [ inaudible ] >> sorry? >> with his mother. but [ inaudible ] and and question, what is the weight of his [ inaudible ] >> yeah, that is a great question. with my subject in particular, his love of books, his love of literature, one might say that he sort of gets that from his dad. his dad was a man of letters, his dad wrote essays. he was a theoretician of the enlightenment philosophers as well. he is not too present in napoleon's life, after they leave corsica of course napoleon is getting his education at the military academy, his dad is not there and his dad dies relatively quickly. i think the one historian has said that napoleon got nothing

from his dad except his bluegray eyes and the cancer that would eventually kill him, he died of the same cancer. i would say that is wrong, i would say he also got probably his early love of literature as a young kid in corsica, probably came from his father. it is safe to assume because carlo, the data, was so prominent in the letters. leticia was of course the great defining parent for him, he loved his mother. she survived him, which is amazing to think about with a man who achieved so much. his mother survived him, she said, and this is to our ears today sounds kind of backwards, but to plan, i assure you this is a great condiment, she said this is the body of a woman and the head of a man. today this may sound distasteful, to him who is very much stuck with 18th-century views on the better , this was very much a compliment. he loved his mother profoundly, she was also a great reader but the sources i am afraid are relatively dry when it comes to her personal libraries. yes, madam?

>> [ inaudible ] >> that again is a very funny point, he spoke horrible french and this is another thing, when foreign diplomats enter meetings with him they were shocked to hear the french monarch speak such broken french. in fact they have in the introduction, his secretaries made lists of words that he was systematically mispronouncing. when he says this he really means this. it is bad. there are some words you have no idea how one gets to that. is of course italian, he gradually loses it and the corsican dialect which is half italian, half, you know, he definitely spoke that. is, corsican. french, he learns quickly but maintains a very bad accent and horrible spelling. and i say this is kind of a cheap shot because it was not very standardized back then but i would say mostly at the end of his life, french, because that is what he spoke the past

15 years. and earlier it would be a telling. i will leave you that with this before i am cut off because again a very long-winded answer but another surreal and very touching scene, during the coronation of him as emperor, he is in notre dame, he has subdued the french nation, it is now his. is in the palm of his hands. he picked up france from the gutter and rested upon his own head, he is standing in full ceremonial robes next to his brother joseph and in the middle of notre dame, the entire french nation looking at their new monarch and joseph, his brother says to him in italian, what if daddy could see us now? people who say that he was a butcher and egotistical and a monster and a maniac, i say, look at what he was reading, look at these little quips and remarks, butchers do not say that. >> [ inaudible ] >> no, weirdly for his love of the ancient world and i probably should have talked about that more, fascinated with history, of course julius caesar one great heroes loved reading cornelius and plutarch

aided studying latin. we have the notes of his latin teachers. he was terrible in latin, terrible in german.'s german professor called him the beast. or the animal. so very bad at languages and specifically with latin. very weird for a guy who loved history so much. >> thank you so much, this was fascinating and i think if we did not have an interest in napoleon before listening to you, i think -- i bet that most of us are now pretty curious about the man because it is pretty contagious, your enthusiasm for him. >> i appreciate that. >> thank you so much for presenting this passion to us. >> one more word if i may, every single thing in this store, ladies and gentlemen, is for sale. so please rush to your wallets and not only purchase a wonderful book about napoleon, but also any of the furniture and the many paintings that we have here. >> yes. thank you so much. [ applause ] so, we have books

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