Show napoleon was a failure fa as writer record shows eighteenth century documents recently brought to light establish the little known fact that napoleon bonaparte before he became a military conqueror had a burning ambition to become a great writer writes J P bowles in the golden book magazine who says bays that he spent seven years in vain efforts to write successfully and finally in chagrin gave up with the remark 1 I no longer haye have the petty ambition to become an author between the ages agea of seventeen and twenty four the documents disclose napoleon made nine separate attempts attempt a to gala gain a career as a writer but met with nothing but disappointment in one 0 of the two short stories there appears the following signi fl cant sentence the last sentence of the second story to what lengths exclaimed napoleon can the tha mad desire tor for tame fame carry a mau man |