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Show Napoleon Had Planned ' Unification of Europe But though he dismisses Fouche from his ministerial post and has the watcher watched, Napoleon cannot get on without him and talks to him about the most private matters. "Since my marriage people fancy that the lion is asleep. They will soon learn whether I am asleep. I need 800,0(X) men and have them; I shall tow all Europe in my wake. Europe is nothing more than an old woman and with my SOO.OOO men I can make her do whatever I please. . . . Did not you yourself say to me, 'You Tel your genius have its way, because it does not know the word impossible'? How can I help It if a great power drives me on to become dictator of the world? You and the others, who criticize me today and would like nie to become a good-natured ruler have not you all been accessories? I have not yet fulfilled my mission and I j mean to end what I have begun We need a European legal code, a Huio- ' pean court of appeal, a unified coin- , age. a common system of weights and measures. The same law must run I throughout Europe. I shall fuse all the nations into one." From "Napo- I Icon, the Man of Destiny." be Emil ! Ludwig. J |
