Napoleon's attitude to libraries was a bit like McDonald's : he expected to find in any of the libraries he founded, whether at the Trianon, Saint Cloud, Rambouillet, Tuileries, Fontainebleau or Compiègne, the same thing, the same flavours, exactly the same books each time.
In the 12th century, the French theologian Pierre le Mangeur – Peter the Eater – …