The European Council is a rough, swaggering sort of grouping. It operates not by finding cosy consensus, but by reaching grubby compromise after lots of camp-forming, bribery and bullying.
To meet this question modern history carefully relates that Napoleon was a very great genius, and that Louis XIV. was very haughty, or that certain writers wrote certain books.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it a "mushy, old-fashioned extravaganza", adding: "We don't even remotely learn from this movie what made them great stars and personalities."
And if we takethis biological view of life and try to live according to the seasons, no one but a conceited fool oran impossible idealist can deny that human life can be lived like a poem.