Memoirs of Méneval about Napoleon, 770-780
The war for minds was going on during the Napoleon epoch as well.
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What I learned today translating Eugene’s Memoirs: a harem attempted to rape Eugene.
This is from Book 1, page 44, of Eugene’s Memoirs:
“The first floor was occupied by the women composing the harem of Murad Bey; they were housed there as if in barracks. It was there that a grotesque and very embarrassing scene awaited me.
“At the sight of a being as new as I was for most of these women, they showed me the most unwelcome curiosity; they surrounded me, touched me, they wanted to grab and undo my clothes. They were feeling me to the utmost degree of indecency. In vain Madame Murad Bey ordered them to go away. In vain, I repelled them myself roughly enough. It was necessary to call in the eunuchs, who, rushing in at the behest of their mistress, beat these women so they would finally let go of me.”
Perhaps unfamiliar words in tonight’s Méneval Napoleon reading
Tonight’s reading is here.
Let’s go crazy
Memoirs of Méneval about Napoleon, 760-770
Napoleon had no tolerance for corruption and it caused many to detest him for it.
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When the English government deceived and trapped Napoleon, he was allowed to choose a doctor from amongst their ranks.
Napoleon selected a Dr. O’Meara.
When Dr. O’Meara refused to continually spy for the English government - once Napoleon was finally deathly ill - this government took Napoleon’s doctor away.
We now have O’Meara’s memoirs and I’m planning to broadcast this work.
This is all part of our trial to reveal what was really done to the Emperor and to show, best we can, who did it.
Napoleon said that the English government had trapped his body but they’d never trap his soul and I believe the Emperor was completely correct about this.
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