Robert E. Lee said something similar after Gettysburg. Great leaders take responsibility for their failures. It is one of the reasons men follow them. "A Manuscript, found in the portfolio of Las Casas, containing Maxims and Observations of Napoleon, collected during the last two years of his residence at St. Helena. Translated from the French, printed for Alexander Black, foreign libary, 77, Pall-mall, 1820." So reads the title page of the volume. Questions about its provenance or accuracy derive from the fact that the British confiscated Las Casas papers, and it spent some time in their care. The British might have created it or altered it for propaganda reasons. The forward by a French author states that the contents are convincingly Napoleonic. Searches on the web found nothing in English to identify the volume as authoritative or not. It is widely available in old books collections and libraries around the world, suggesting it was accepted as legitimate. It also seems to be the source of "Napoleon's Maxims of War". Given how widely it was published and accepted, I expect it is considered authentic, though there is no Wiki entry, or history of the book aside from descriptions from online booksellers. It is available free in PDF from Google books. It should be interesting to go through. Stage is baroque cabinet by Vcernicek. Statues are by andi3d aka mortem vetus. Parasol is by Adam Thwaite. Hats are by Varsel aka Jim Farris. Dragonthrone by Natrix aka Dmon. Tutu is from my freestuff. Models are V2 in textures and characters from my freestuff. Todays Fractal music video. The video is fractal art done on Apophysis, the music is fractal music done on Quasifractal composer. You can download albums from my freestuff here at Renderosity or make your own. You can use the free version of switch sound file converter to convert the MIDI files to MP3 for your videos. They do look better on full screen.