Come, let's talk about the Emperor a little, it will do us good. Victor Hugo

... but France shall feel the want
Of this last consolation, though so scant;
Her honour, fame and faith demand his bones
To rear above a pyramid of thrones.
Lord Byron

It shone (his life) with a brilliance that the world had never seen before and will doubtless never see again. Goethe

History is his true country, it is there that he hopes to find the only rest suitable to him - to sleep in the stone of monuments raised to his glory. Friedrich Sieburg

Napoleon was not made of the wood monarchs are made of, but of the marble gods are made of. Heinrich Heine

A mortal man beyond all mortal praise. W.S. Landor