Works by Caesar, Tacitus, Plutarch, Livy, and Thucydides also accompanied the Emperor to Egypt, as did classic poems and plays by Homer, Ariosto, Tasso, Ossian, Virgil, Racine, and Molière. And of course, Napoleon wouldn’t have been caught dead without his beloved Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) or Esprit des Lois (Montesquieu). Clearly, Napoleon had a voracious curiosity and vibrant intellectual life — but which of the books he read influenced him the most? Today, we explore the authors who influenced Napoleon’s life and thought arguably more than any other. Commençons