…had gone over enthusiastically to the royalist side he would always have been a loyal supporter of the king and of course when Napoleon came back during the hundred days he was in a very awkward and unpleasant position but he says what he was doing…

…crown and they revolted against the crown of Spain because the whole idea of the divine right of kings had been smashed by Napoleon when he imposed his brother Joseph upon the throne of Spain and this keystone of the great arch of Spanish loyalty was…

…into a single country and German nationalism was systematically of course encouraged the beginnings of it started much earlier under Napoleon but as soon as the country was politically united the theology of nationalism was officially taught and the history…

…tremendous nationalistic fervor which was aroused among the revolutionaries, the fervor for the new nationalist theology, was the thing which helped Napoleon to extend his conquests far and wide over Europe and by 1811 he had the intention of setting up this…

…of military organisation, logistics, transport, tactics and strategy under Frederick the Great and again a little later under Napoleon, an organisation which is incidentally quite incredibly remote from the military non-organisation of the Middle Ages where who…

…local communes with their local laws, are completely abolished and a rational system is imposed by the revolution and perfected by Napoleon who crowns the whole edifice with the Napoleonic code of law, which again reads takes up Roman law and codifies it…

…is happening in France now. They are trying to get rid of a technical system which was admirable in the time of Napoleon, but which is not particularly admirable today. And this, what may be called the Gaullist revolution, is, I think among other things,…