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Your Frenchman, not a contender with having a rob does have everything we have held dear.

I've also corrupted our character. The praise and the condition of my country and my

powerlessness to change it are additional reasons for me to leave a land where I am obliged by duty

to praise men whom I ought to buy virtue to hate. When I arrive in my country, how am I to act

and what am I to do? When the mother country has ceased to exist, the good citizen should die.

If I had to destroy but one man in order to live in my fellow countrymen, I would start that once,

I would plunge the avenging dagger up to the hilt in the breast of the tyrant.

So that Dominic was Napoleon Bonaparte, writing in 1786 on the very teenage subject of suicide.

And Napoleon Bonaparte is of course a better known as Napoleon Bonaparte and we are looking at

the origins of this titanic figure of French history but the extraordinary thing is that of course

he wasn't really French at all was he as that brilliant impression has paid to the listener.

Hello everybody, if you're still listening. So I think that's one of the most extraordinary

impressions you've ever done. Thank you. I think we're just gloss over the axon completely because

we could be talking for hours. But it's conveying an important point, isn't it? It is where he

starts. You Frenchman, you've robbed us of everything. We held dear, you've corrupted our

character and he talks about my country and the country he's talking about in that beautiful

Italian accent. Well, it's not Italian, is it? It's Corsican because the country is Corsica.

Yeah, it's a Ligurian dialect which I hope the listeners picked up on. Yeah.

General E's listeners. So Napoleon, as you say, a superhuman historical figure. I suppose it

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