<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Napoleonic Fable</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fable that’s agreed upon<br>according to Napoleon<br>is what we should call history, <br>but ascribe its mystery<br>to recollections that are wrong<br>of brief events stretched into long, <br>in contrast to the brief report<br>that should, like our own lives, be short.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">About this poem’s serious moral<br>A good historian would not quarrel: <br>Your history, if you are able<br>to write it up, is just a fable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Napoleon once asked rhetorically: “What is history but a fable that is agreed upon? ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1/3/10</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gershon+Hepner">Gershon Hepner</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566016" data-title="Napoleonic Fable de Gershon Hepner" data-description="A fable that’s agreed upon according to Napoleon is what we should call history, but ascribe its mystery to recollections that are wrong of brief events stretched into long, in contrast to the brief report that should, like our own lives, be s..."></div> </div> </div>

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