Most /lit/ historical figures??

Did he ever live to rewrite any of Voltaire's plays?

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When I have free time at my uni, I always stop by my library and read a book filled with Bonaparte's letters, orders and documents. The man is one of the most underrated writers of all time. His love letters are a bit melodramatic, but they have a charm.

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>>9545162
Hands down Marcus Aurelius

>>9545181
Correct

Nero
Marcus Aurelius
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great

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Augustine was also pretty fucking /lit/

Montaigne. Not only was he mayor of Bordeaux, but respected and therefore trusted by Catholics and Protestants alike when the wars of Religion in France were at their most virulent.
In modern times Havel, obviously.

>>9545162
Hitler

>>9545309
The John Green of his time

>>9545309
This is bait, but Hitler was a voracious reader and almost certainly more literate than basically everyone here, however evil and confused you find his ideas to be. The hurr durr Hitler was a pleb thing is obvious propaganda, and no, I'm not a holocaust denier or Nazi supporter.

>>9545162
Moses and Jesus.

>>9545309
Underrated post.

>>9545162

Alright so there's at least 11 of you ready to go. That's pretty sad. Find something else to do, this is pathetic.

>>9545162
Joan of Arc

>>9545435

pathetique** op 13

Napoleon is pretty OP and unbelievable. His entire life is grander than any fiction.

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>>9545162
He wrote like he was running out of time. Because he was. Because he endorsed Jefferson and Burr shot him for it.

Can't believe my favorite US founding father has a fucking hip hop musical about him. What kind of reality are we living in?

>>9545451
>falling for the Great Man theory
>smugtolstoy.jpg

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>>9545309

>>9545479

How much of the myth of Napoleon is just that, do you suppose?

>>9545488

Where are those quotes from? That hits uncomfortably close to home.

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>>9545468
>tfw perhaps the greatest conservative thinker of Early America is the hero of every liberal millennial woman

>>9545468

He wasn't running out of time. That's what Burr wanted him to think.

>>9545508
I didn't make the image, so I can't confirm but I'm told it's from The Young Hitler I Knew. I mean to get around to reading it, because it sounds interesting.

>>9545468

It makes the founding fathers 'safe' by contextualising them within something that can be distorted, mocked, praised at will. All part of media psy ops.

>>9545479
>He didn't read Representative Men by Emerson.

Kek.