Penguin Random House Australia 2018.
p 40
"Bourrienne recalls an instance when a young secretary,
reading aloud to Napoleon from a manuscript of
Napoleon's own account of the Italian campaign,paused, unable to make out the writing.
'The little blockhead cannot read his own handwriting!"
Bonaparte snorts.
It is not mine,sir,' says the scribe.
'And whose, then?'
'Yours,sir.'
'How so, you little rogue? Do you mean to insult me?'
Bourrienne recalls that Napoleon took the manuscript,
tried for a long time to read it, and at last threw it down, saying,
'He is right! I cannot tell myself what is written.'
Bourrienne,L., Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, vol. 3, ch. 13
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