"After all though, wasn’t it Napoleon himself who famously said, “History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon”?"

"People"? Well, in this case there is no need for "Guess who?"

Maybe, in a way, from a psychological point of view, a petty ankle-biting "artist" 's state of mind should be far more interesting than the personality of whoever he has projected his own character onto, shouldn't it ?