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Blood wrote:

Peter Kirby wrote: Napoleon is said to have earnestly asked the question. (Perhaps a reason behind the churchman's pamphlet questioning the existence of Napoleon.)

I cannot locate the document supposed to be parodied here, Historic Doubts Relative to Jesus of Nazareth. Perhaps someone else can?

I've never heard of that, either. Whately's book on Napoleon was supposedly conceived as a satire on David Hume.

However, I suspect that many pamphlets published on the continent during that period have perished.