Excerpt from Napoleonic Ideas: Des Idees Napoléoniennes, Par Le Prince Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte, Brussels: 1839 In making the foregoing remarks, I do not by any means wish it to be understood, that I consider the interest which attaches itself to the original work limited to transient circumstances, and to the present moment. Ou the contrary, many of the ideas are valuable in themselves and suggestive of others: they form, in my opinion, an important contribution to the science and art of politics, and to philosophy. The book might very properly have been entitled a philo sophical analysis of the Consulate and the Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.