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    At the military school in Paris Napoleon had the first of the 'hate at first sight' experiences that

    were to dog him through life. His enemy was Le Picard de Phelipeaux, who just pipped him into
    forty-first place in the artillery examination, became an emigre after the Revolution, and fought
    with the British against Napoleon at Acre in 1798. But Napoleon had the gift for rubbing up the
    wrong way against young females as well as male rivals. In 1785 he sometimes visited Madame
    Permon, a Corsican and an old friend of Carlo; she had married a rich French commissary officer
    and had two daughters, Cecile and Laure. There seems to have been an instant antagonism
    between Napoleon and Laure who, seeing his long legs in officers' boots, laughed at him and
    called him 'Puss in Boots'. Although Napoleon tried to turn the whole thing into a joke, it was
    clear he was deeply affronted. He would not have liked Laure anyway: she had been dressed as a
    boy until the age of eight and was as assertive as only men were supposed to be in that era. Later
    she married Napoleon's friend Junot and was a persistent thorn in the Bonaparte side. A kind of
    female Bourrienne, like him she would do anything for money and in that capacity later brought
    out eighteen volumes of memoirs which rival Bourrienne's for their unreliability. Napoleon could
    never abide any gender uncertainty or 'unnatural' behaviour by assertive or strident women. His
    ambivalent feelings about his mother are at the root of this, but if tradition is any guide, as a
    cadet he had further experiences that made him wary of women. He was said to have met up with
    two young women, then been shocked and incredulous to find they were lesbians. The other
    story from his cadet years concerns the attempt to seduce him by a much older woman. But the
    sixteen-yearold Second Lieutenant Bonaparte was still sexually timid and repressed. He was
    allegedly the only successful artilleryman in Paris posted to the La Fere regiment who did not
    visit a brothel in Lyons on the way south. With a chip on his shoulder about his social origins
    and his nationality, an uncertain touch with his male peers and a fear and suspicion of women,
    Napoleon needed little else to make him feel as though he were one of nature's loners. But, to cap
    all, he was short of stature, only 5'6" 30 when fully grown. Alfred Adler has made us aware that
    this is a key feature in the overcompensation of despots; most dictators have been small men -
    Caesar, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Franco as well as Napoleon. It is no exaggeration to say that
    the sixteen-year-old Napoleon's experience of life denoted the authoritarian personality in the
    making.

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