Attempts on this man's life are thwarted when his would-be killer first saves the officer Ramballe, then rescues a little girl trapped in a burning house.
In a suicidal attempt to impress this character, several Polish men march across a frozen river and forty of them drown. Attempts on this man's life are thwarted when his would-be killer first saves the officer Ramballe, then rescues a little girl trapped in a burning house. At the end of Book 9, the protagonist applies his Freemason-taught numerology to morph this man's name into the number 666, backing Anna Pavlovna Scherer's assertion at the novel's opening party, that this man is the (*) Antichrist. Andrei Bolkonsky idolizes this character until he is rescued by him in battle, and Pierre Bezukhov feverishly plots to murder him. The novel's epilogue denies that history is shaped by great men like this character and his opposing head of state, Tsar Alexander I. For 10 points, War and Peace is set during what Frenchman's invasion of Russia?
In a suicidal attempt to impress this character, several Polish men march across a frozen river and forty of them drown.
Napoleon Bonaparte [or Napoleon Bonaparte