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- For religion, he wanted: both (bible) testaments, the Quoran, history of the Church. - Epics: Homère, Lucain, Le Tasse, Télémarque, La Henriade - Tragedies:
by athenot 9y ago
- For religion, he wanted: both (bible) testaments, the Quoran, history of the Church.
- Epics: Homère, Lucain, Le Tasse, Télémarque, La Henriade
- Tragedies: some Corneille, Racine (minus a few), Voltaire. No Molière
- History: some chronology works and works on the Roman Empire
He didn't want many memoires and "useless dissertations".
As a side-note this started in July 1808 and by December he was complaining that there wasn't enough new content.
The full project never got executed, only a subset ever got produced and apparently it wasn't satisfactory.
Source: Les Bibliothèques particulière de L'Empereur Napoléon, Antoine Guillois, 1900 —
http://bibnum.enc.sorbonne.fr/omeka/files/original/0ac1be91312051774cb5436fab7eff4d.pdf http://bibnum.enc.sorbonne.fr/omeka/files/original/0ac1be913...