Excerpt from The Deluge When Napoleon was about to crown himself so I have somewhere read - they submitted to him the 'royal genealogy they had faked up for him. He crumpled the parchment and flung it in the face of the chief herald, or whoever it was. My line, said he, dates from Monte notte. And SO I say, my line dates from the campaign that completed and established my fame - from Wild Week. I shall not pause to recite the details of the obscurity from which I emerged. It would be an interesting, a romantic story; but it is a familiar story, also, in this land which Lincoln SO finely and SO fully described when he said: The republic is Opportunity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.