'In fact, Napoleon had never known what he wanted to do with Prussia...This was something new in French politics, another evidence that Napoleon was and remained a Corsican, never part of a real French tradition. Eighteenth Century France had always had a Prussian policy; leaders during the Revolution, whether they were for or against Prussia, had ideas of what it should be, whether ally, opponent, neutral, mediator, or buffer state. But this was because Frenchmen, however they differed on the subject, had always had some general concept of Europe, and Napoleon did not.' (my underlining)
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