Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Napoleon Trusted His Omens. [ARTICLE]

Napoleon Trusted His Omens.

Napoleon always had an unlimited trust in his presentiments. When the news came to him that one of the Nile river boats, the name of which was L’ltalle, had been wrecked and the crew put to death he gave up all hope of ever completing Ills conquest of Italy by annexation. Napoleon believed the stars exercised an occult Influence over human destinies. When General Rapp, at one time Ills aid-de-camp, returned from the siege of Dantsic he found the emperor gazing concentrated attention at the heavens. “Look there!” shouted the emperor. “It Is my star! The fiery red one, almost as large as the moon! It is before you now, aud, ah. how brilliant I It has never abandoned mo for a single Instant. I see It on all great occasions. It commands me to go forward ; It Is my sign of good fortune, and where It leads I will follow.”