About the book: 1980 / The audience given by Napoleon to Goethe took place on October 3, 1808 in the Erfurt Palace of the Weimar Duke Karl August. Young Napoleon was very fascinated by The Sorrows of Young Werther. But this did not stop him, at the height of his fame, having met the idol of his old hobbies, from pointing out to the author one weak place, as it seemed to him, in this novel.