Quotes from Andrew Roberts's books, and about them
Napoleon: A Life on Clisson et Eugene: “Napoleon plenty of time to write a romantic novella entitled Clisson et Eugénie, a swansong for his unrequited love affair with Désirée.”
Napoleon: A Life on The Sorrows of Young Werther: “it was either consciously or unconsciously influenced by Goethe's celebrated novel of 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which Napoleon read no fewer than six times during the Egyptian campaign”
Napoleon: A Life on Henry V: “Shakespeare's St Crispin Day's speech from Henry V can also be detected in such lines”
Napoleon: A Life on The Spirit of the Laws: “including Captain Cook's three-volume Voyages, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther and books by Livy, Thucydides, Plutarch, Tacitus and, of course, Julius Caesar.”
Napoleon: A Life on Voyages: “Napoleon also took 125 books of history, geography, philosophy and Greek mythology in a specially constructed library, including Captain Cook's three-volume Voyages, Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws, Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther”