In this memoir,
communicated to the Emperor, the above motive is alleged.
[33] Pelet de la Loz?re.
[34] I can imagine the effect this description of Napoleon's genius
and inventive spirit must have had on Lenin when he lived and studied
in Paris and forged his plans for a communist state, a world
revolution, an annihilation of the existing order and the creation of
a new (and better) one. (SR.)
[35] Decree of March 17, 1808, arts. 101, 102.
[36] In any pre-revolutionary society, authority must be undermined,
women introduced whenever it can lessen the efficiency of the
organization. But once the revolution has won, then Lenin's dictum
about entrusting men of administrative talent with the full authority
of the dictatorship of the proletariat is to be followed. As Taine was
translated into German, Hitler is likely, directly or indirectly to
have studied Napoleon. Hitler's "f?hrerprincip" a principle which gave
the Nazi society its terrible efficiency was probably the result.
(SR.)
[37] Decree of March 20, 1808, articles 40-46.
[38] For example, act of March 31, 1812, On leaves of absence.
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