(Written down by Bourrienne the same evening.)] [Footnote 1176: Madame de Remusat, I., 274 .-- De Segur, II., 459.
(Napoleon's own words on the eve of the battle of Austerlitz): "Yes, if I had taken Acre, I would have assumed the turban, I would have put the army in loose breeches; I would no longer have exposed it, except at the last extremity; I would have made it my sacred battalion, my immortals.
It is with Arabs, Greeks, and Armenians that I would have ended the war against the Turks.

Instead of one battle in Moravia I would have gained a battle of Issus; I would have made myself emperor of the East, and returned to Paris by the way of Constantinople."-- De Pradt, p.19 (Napoleon's own words at Mayence, September, 1804): "Since two hundred years there is nothing more to do in Europe; it is only in the East that things can be carried out on a grand scale."] [Footnote 1177: Madame de Remusat, I., 407 .-- Miot de Melito, II., 214 (a few weeks after his coronation): "There will be no repose in Europe until it is under one head, under an Emperor, whose officers would be kings, who would distribute kingdoms to his lieutenants, who would make one of them King of Italy, another King of Bavaria, here a landmann of Switzerland, and here a stadtholder of Holland, etc."] [Footnote 1178: "Correspondance de Napoleon I.," vol.XXX., 550, 558.
(Memoirs dictated by Napoleon at Saint Helene.)--Miot de Melito, II., 290 .-- D'Hausonvillc, "l'Eglise Romaine et le Premier Empire, passim .-- Memorial." "Paris would become the capital of the Christian world, and I would have governed the religious world as well as the political world."] [Footnote 1179: De Pradt, 23.] [Footnote 1180: "Memoires et Memorial." "It was essential that Paris should become the unique capital, not to be compared with other capitals.

The masterpieces of science and of art, the museums, all that had illustrated past centuries, were to be collected there.

Napoleon regretted that he could not transport St.Peter's to Paris; the meanness of Notre Dame dissatisfied him."] [Footnote 1181: Villemain, "Souvenir contemporaines," I., 175.
Napoleon's statement to M.de Narbonne early in March, 1812, and repeated by him to Villemain an hour afterwards.

The wording is at second hand and merely a very good imitation, while the ideas are substantially Napoleon's.