The cover page is adapted from Mayor de Croeser Receives Napoleon Bonaparte in the City Hall of Bruges, 1803, a painting completed in 1807 by Joseph Denis Odevaere. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Denis_Odevaerewww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Man of Destiny
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After the Battle of Lodi, General Napoleon is sitting in an inn and eating his dinner when a Lieutenant arrives to tell him that some of his dispatches have been stolen. Napoleon determines that a strange lady also staying in the inn has them in her possession, and thus begins a battle of wits for the papers—and over Napoleon’s philosophy.
The Man of Destiny was written and first performed in 1897, and has been adapted for radio and television. It was first published in the collection Plays Pleasant.