What books Napoleon Bonaparte used to read?

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From the German Wikipedia on Napoleon:

  • Plato
  • Voltaire
  • Corneille
  • Lavater
  • Rollin "Geschichte des Altertums"
  • Buffon "Histoire naturelle"
  • Marigny "Geschichte der Araber"
  • Goethe "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"
  • Rousseau
  • Raynal.

[Source (sic) given in Wikipedia is Franz Herre: Napoleon Bonaparte. Eine Biographie. MΓΌnchen 2006, S. 12–18, Volker Ullrich: Napoleon. Reinbek bei Hamburg 2004, S. 16–22.]

From the English Wikipedia on James MacPherson, a Scottish writer and politician:

  • James MacPherson "Ossian", Italian translation by Melchiore Cesarotti (thanks to @Drux for pointing it out).

[Source given in Wikipedia is Zamoyski, Adam (2001). Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 45.]

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