The Soul of Napoleon (Lʼ me de Napol on, originally), by L on Bloy, is a poem in prose on the great generalʼs achievements and greatness, but it is more than that, it is a re-assessment of his significance from a Catholic and a Catholic eschatological point of view, as perhaps no other writer than L on Bloy could have put down on paper. Written in 1912, it is also, like many of L on Bloyʼs writings, prophetic in an eerie way of near-term...