This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic, lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris's high society, he too called Carême to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte.