 The pamphlet's complete title in French was "Comme quoi Napoléon n’a jamais existé ou Grand Erratum, source d'un nombre infini d'errata à noter dans l'histoire du XIXe siècle" ("As if Napoleon never existed or Grand Erratum, source of an infinite number of errata as noted in the history of the 19th century").The pamphlet's satire was directed at Charles François Dupuis (1742–1809) and his influential work "Origine de tous les Cultes, ou la Réligion Universelle" (1795), which attempted to prove that all religions were equally valid and based on common and universal imagery and magic numbers.Pérès presents an overly rationalistic interpretation of the analogies and etymologies of elements in the popular understanding of Napoleon's life in order to show how, just as the Scriptures or other religious texts could be argued to be mythical, so could Napoleon's life.