“ C’est grand! ” 129 say the historians, and there no longer exists either good or evil but only “ grand ” and “not grand .” Grand is good, not grand is bad. Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called “heroes.” And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c’est grand , 130 and his soul is tranquil.