/lit/ - Literature

who?

>>21298361
Napoleon retard

Find another site to sully, you evil coward.

>>21298371
Only if you wash your penis first

>>21298359
The one by Andrew Roberts and the one by Victor Cronin are my favorites. The latter reads like a novel, while the former like an excellent history book.

>>21298387
Thanks for the recommendations fren

>>21298359
Who?

>>21299458
The only European who has mattered in the last 300 years.

>Napoleon emancipated Jews, as well as Protestants in Catholic countries and Catholics in Protestant countries, from laws which restricted them to ghettos, and he expanded their rights to property, worship, and careers. Despite the antisemitic reaction to Napoleon's policies from foreign governments and within France, he believed emancipation would benefit France by attracting Jews to the country given the restrictions they faced elsewhere.[266]

>In 1806 an assembly of Jewish notables was gathered by Napoleon to discuss 12 questions broadly dealing with the relations between Jews and Christians, as well as other issues dealing with the Jewish ability to integrate into French society. Later, after the questions were answered in a satisfactory way according to the Emperor, a "great Sanhedrin" was brought together to transform the answers into decisions that would form the basis of the future status of the Jews in France and the rest of the empire Napoleon was building.[267]

>He stated, "I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country. It takes weakness to chase them out of the country, but it takes strength to assimilate them".[268] He was seen as so favourable to the Jews that the Russian Orthodox Church formally condemned him as "Antichrist and the Enemy of God".[269]

>One year after the final meeting of the Sanhedrin, on 17 March 1808, Napoleon placed the Jews on probation. Several new laws restricting the citizenship the Jews had been offered 17 years previously were instituted at that time. However, despite pressure from leaders of a number of Christian communities to refrain from granting Jews emancipation, within one year of the issue of the new restrictions, they were once again lifted in response to the appeal of Jews from all over France.[267]

>>21299502
Yes, it was an economic decision only.

>>21298361
images (5) retard

>>21299511
Sure.

>>21299633
Yes.

>>21299511
The biography by this guy is very readable.

>>21299641
Glad we can agree.

>>21298359
Have you considered reading History of Friedrich II by Thomas Carlyle?

>>21299650
That he didn't like Jews? Yes.

this book is kino

>>21299493
jesus?

>>21299669
Egyptian magic...I wonder why he was attracted to that...
>>21299654
Let's just ignore his opinion and paint him how we like, right?

>>21299704
>Egyptian magic...I wonder why he was attracted to that...
He wanted to larp as Alexander the Great

>>21299709
>larp
I would not be surprised at all if I died and found out Napoleon was Alexander's reincarnation.

>>21299713
He isn't.

>>21299788
Okay how you know?

>>21298359
is that the guy who killed ~165 kids?

Tell me one presidential biography that's worth reading

>>21300478
I killed >1 million kids 2 min ago; it felt awesome.

>>21299709
He was better than Alexander the Great.

>>21300636
When I say he wanted to larp as Alexander the Great, I mean that literally. He literally wanted to copy alexander and invade Egypt. When he arrived at Alexandria he was massively disappointed because he was expecting a spectacular city but it was just a shithole dusty village since the nile tributary it sat on dried up centuries ago

>>21300643
Alexandria under Greek rule is very different than Alexandria under Arab/Mamluk or Ottoman rule..

>>21299502
SHUT THE FUCK UP
Go to /pol/. Fuck off from /lit/. Nobody wants you here. Nobody wants to discuss le globohomo regurgitated shit for the billionth time. Tasteless, boring waste of text.
FUCK OFF.

>>21298359
Andrew Roberts deserves all the praise he gets. It’s a fantastic read.

>>21298359
Albert Manfred's biography is pretty good

SHUT THE FUCK UP
Go to /pol/. Fuck off from /lit/
Nobody wants to discuss le globohomo regurgitated shit for the billionth time. Tasteless, boring waste of text.
FUCK OFF.

>>21298359
Not really a biography but the last lecture of Hero-Worship.

>>21301001
Yes, fuck off losers

>>21300498
Not really on topic for the thread, but Middlekauffs biography on Washington is great, Roger Stone has a great biography on Nixon too

The memoires of Barras in 3 volumes. Barras regretted advancing the young artillery officer and regarded him at first as a kind of fool, then a treacherous self seeking hypocrite, and then finally a sadistic monster who revelled in creating an immense amount of human suffering simply for his own delight.

>>21298359