1247 ([return])
[ Nearly all his false calculations are due to this defect, combined with an excess of constructive imagination.—Cf. De Pradt, p.94: "The Emperor is all system, all illusion, as one cannot fail to be when one is all imagination. Whoever has watched his course has noticed his creating for himself an imaginary Spain, an imaginary Catholicism, an imaginary England, an imaginary financial state, an imaginary noblesse, and still more an imaginary France, and, in late times, an imaginary congress.">[
1248 ([return])
[ Roederer, III., 495. (March 8, 1804.)]
1249 ([return])
[ Ibid., III., 537 (February 11, 1809.)]
1250 ([return])
[ Roederer, III., 514. (November 4, 1804.)]
1251 ([return])
[ Marmont, II., 242.]