. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. , Napoleon replied, everything can be ar-ranged and peace is already made. Leaving their attendants outside, the Emperors then en-tered the pavilion, where the two childless monarchs sat alonefor an hour and three quarters while they partitioned theworld between themselves, for Asia as well as Europe seemedthen to be a melon ripe for cutting. Happily neither pos-sessed anything that the other coveted, their boundaries lyingfar apart, and the Russians always being more greedy for con-quests in the east than in the west. Napoleon cr
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. , Napoleon replied, everything can be ar-ranged and peace is already made. Leaving their attendants outside, the Emperors then en-tered the pavilion, where the two childless monarchs sat alonefor an hour and three quarters while they partitioned theworld between themselves, for Asia as well as Europe seemedthen to be a melon ripe for cutting. Happily neither pos-sessed anything that the other coveted, their boundaries lyingfar apart, and the Russians always being more greedy for con-quests in the east than in the west. Napoleon craftily divertedAlexanders attention and ambition from Europe. Seizingupon the timely news that a revolution had lately taken placein Turkey, he assured the Czar it was a decree of Providencethat the Turkish Empire could no longer exist. As always, however, when nations sit down to feast onTurkey, the two Emperors could not agree which should havethe Constantinople slice. I could have shared the TurkishEmpire with Russia, Napoleon said in after years, but Con-. The Emperor of the West and the Emperor of the East MeetingON the Kaft at Tilsit
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