Good Guy Napoleon guilt-trips Genoa’s population for toppling a statue of Andrea Doria, offers to help pay for the restoration.

>Indeed, after the democrats had destroyed the statue of Genoa’s great hero, [Andrea Doria](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Andrea_Doria.jpg), [Napoleon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) admonished them, writing that Doria had been ‘a great sailor and a great statesman. Aristocracy was liberty in his day. The whole of Europe envies your city the honour of having produced that celebrated man. You will, I doubt not, take pains to rear his statue again: I pray you to let me bear a part of the expense which that will entail.’ ____________________________ **Source:** Roberts, Andrew. "Peace." *Napoleon: A Life*. New York: Penguin, 2014. 142-43. Print. **Original Source Listed:** CGI no. 1587 p. 692, May 27, 1797. ____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Genova / Zena / Genua (Genoa)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa) [Andrea Doria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Doria) [Napoleone di Buonaparte / Napoleon Bonaparte / Napoleon I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon)