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Napoleon wore out his secretaries, I think one stayed with him for five years and finally left after this period, absolutely exhausted. As I recollect I believe he wrote or dictated between eighty and one hundred and twenty letters a day. His secretaries would sit around him in a circle, he would pick one out to write out his dictation. It was said up until that point he was the most informed ruler in history with riders coming to him from every part of France with information every day. It has been said that during his reign, he spent only about a thousand days in Paris, but in that time he re-wrote the constitution.
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