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Show Napoleon on Shakespeare. It la a fact that the great emperor of the French had a very poor opinion of Shakespeare's plays. According to Thlbat:deau. In bis "Ilonaparte and the Consulate," Napoleon said one day: "Shakespeare was forgotten even by the English for two hundred years, until un-til Voltaire took It Into his head to write him up, to please his English friends; and ever since people have gone about repeating that Shakespeare Shake-speare was the greatest author that ever lived. I have read him, and there Is nothing in him that approaches Corneille or Haclne. Ills plays are Dot worth reading." |