Military rule is favourable to it: this work will afterwards enter into the details of the usurped authority enjoyed by the Kings of the twelve Kingdoms of Europe.
"There are very few Kings who have not deserved dethronement[12]." This curt pronouncement is all that remains of the projected work.

It sufficiently indicates, however, the aim of Napoleon's studies.

One and all they were designed to equip him for the great task of re-awakening the spirit of the Corsicans and of sapping the base of the French monarchy.
But these reams of manuscript notes and crude literary efforts have an even wider source of interest.

They show how narrow was his outlook on life.

It all turned on the regeneration of Corsica by methods which he himself prescribed.