To go from Boulogne to Ulm in just a few weeks is quite simply prodigious. He lived at a hundred miles an hour. I try to make that my example in my daily life. I'd like to be able to sleep as little as he did. When you have that gift of nature, when nature's made you like that, you can go far.
All great statesmen have it.
But I'm sure that to a certain extent it can be learned. Well, I'm pleased about the public's reaction to the travelling exhibition which we're preparing, but at the same time I'm completely indifferent. I'm doing it for Napoleon. I feel it's my mission. That's why I'm so keen to organise a Napoleonic exhibition in China in the centre of the Forbidden City.