Espías en la embajada

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Conquistar el mundo quizá sea más fácil que conquistar la posteridad. Napoleón, que acarició lo primero, ha conseguido sobradamente lo segundo. Seductor como un encantador de serpientes, cruel tirano y, a la vez, heraldo del mensaje liberador de la Revolución Francesa, genio militar y visionario, su figura ha fascinado a partidarios y detractores por igual. Empezando por sus contemporáneos, como Balzac, quien realizó esta concisa y meticulosa antología de sus máximas y pensamientos sin eludir las aristas más afiladas del pequeño cabo que llegó a emperador. Balzac y Napoleón: dos ...

En esta obra, hecha a partir de distintos textos de la obra de Menéndez Pelayo, seleccionados por Jorge Vigón, el lector no encontrará un manual de historia, sino la brillante reflexión sobre nuestro pasado común de una de las cabezas más significadas de la historia del pensamiento español. “Yo, a falta de grandezas que admirar en el presente, he tomado sobre mis hombros la tarea de testamentario de nuestra cultura española”. Así lo afirmó Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, padre del moderno pensamiento conservador español y autor de una ingente obra que recorre toda la historia y la...