Napoleon on Cossacks

[Vadim Besprozvanny]

Dear Professor Toman, 

This phrase could be itself a topic for a nice research. This very popular
_mot_ (allegedly) belonging to Napoleon has been quoted by many sources
(quite often without any footnotes), mentioning different time span:10, 50,
100.  

Here is the reference to the most common source of the phrase: 

Enfin une dernire chance et ce pourrait tre la plus probable ce serait le
besoin qu on aurait de moi contre les Russes car dans l tat actuel des
choses avant dix ans toute l Europe peut tre cosaque ou toute en rpublique
[Mmorial de Sainte Hlne  par le comte de Las Cases. d. Lecointe. 1828, t.
III, p. 110-111]. 

This book is available on GoogleBooks: 

http://books.google.com/books?id=n9bLat3YVogC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=memorial+de+sainte+helene+lecointe&source=bl&ots=nQTyYOBeXG&sig=a6KK4oBfsv4mrzsI2_XSbMDB8Ww&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ao3-T86OIoi8rQHO5cWLCQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Cosaque
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 Dear Seelangers: At some
point Napoleon allegedly made the prophesy that
in one hundred years Europe would be either French or Cossack. Is anyone
familiar with a source for this? 

 Many thanks for suggestions from a colleague involved in footnoting... 

 --Jindrich Toman

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