Excerpt from The French Revolution Napoleon in Literature CaricatureTo gather the contemporaneous literature relat ing to the history of such a period of the world's life as the French Revolution, seems an impossible task. Even to assemble the literature in English relative to that great past is to bring about a constant mental unquiet. The dissonance of the judgments of con temporaries, the strange mixtures of the comic and the tragic, the domestic and the heroic, the records falsified and distorted by prejudice, the pictorial glorification, the humorous, silly and venomous cari catures and broadsides, the mere number of books and papers to be handled, bewilder the mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.