Napoleon Bonaparte as Mars the Peacemaker by Antonio Canova 1802-1806

“I am a Roman Emperor. I come from the best line of Caesars, the Caesars who build. You who know history so well, are you not struck by the likenesses of my government to that of Diocletian, by this close-knit network that I have spread so far, by these Emperor's eyes which can see everywhere, and by this civil authority which I have known how to maintain in an Empire of war.”

-Conversation with Narbonne quoted by Louis MADELIN, Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, Robert Laffont, collection “Bouquins”, republished. 2003, t. III, p.354. (via napoleon.org link below)

Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker by Antonio Canova 1802-1806.

Portrait of Napoleon.

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Quote:

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/napoleon-and-charlemagne/