In February 2025 social media posts, U.S. President Donald Trump shared this quote usually attributed to French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." ...

The great writer and his everyday world come alive in these pages—much as early 19th-century French society comes alive in Balzac’s novels. So, too, does the “sparkling and proud” city ...

It first appeared in "Maximes et pensées de Napoléon" by French author Honoré de Balzac. The book, published in 1838, 23 years after Napoleon's death in exile, is a compilation of aphorisms ...