...If he was quoted accurately as having referred to "Napoleon the Third, Whatever..."

At the turn of the 19th century, the Original, first-one-to-use-the-name Napoleon Bonaparte was the leader of the French. Napoleon the Third (brother Jerome's kid, a nephew) was apparently the one who made his own Faustian bargain, which ruined the Mexicans (and his brother, Maximilian, the nice guy in the family), and his own country (see "Franco-Prussian War") as well.

It's just so typical, these guys are giving lectures on history, on what it means for us today -- and they don't have a clue, their ass-and-elbow recognition skills having been so hopelessly compromised by the oxygen deprivation that's a direct consequence of having their heads so far up their own rectal cavities.