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...I’ve just finished writing a book on Napoleon Bonaparte, who famously remarked, “They wanted me to be another Washington.”...
...He’d see them in dreams....
...Like they know that people care about Napoleon, so they know that if they’d make a movie about it, it will do well. But on the other hand, it’s not because it’s history....
...The entrance hall to the Musée d’Orsay’s magnificent Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism is smothered in bright red flowers — enlarged versions of the scarlet blots and flecks swarming the long grasses of...
...“Genius has no sex,” said Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, bestowing upon her the first female Légion d’Honneur in 1865....
...The difference is, we haven’t cut the army to its smallest size since Napoleon.”...
...Napoleon, inspecting the factory in 1806 ,was so impressed that he awarded him the Légion d’honneur....
...They truly are the masters of rattan furniture, furniture from the second half of the 19th century, Napoleon III-style ceramics and slips. Talmaris is the ultimate address for tableware lovers....
...The house, her grandmother and the Venetian surroundings have inspired Coco’s brand d’AddA, a clothing and accessories line....
...Until a decade ago, I’d assumed that some civic engagement in a person was better than none....
...So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...
...And the discreet styling means you don’t wish you’d swapped out of your wellies first....
...China’s pharma researchers do a lot of R&D of their own, but do not seem to produce many blockbusters....
...This is a problem, because a critical shoeing isn’t just a form of hygiene, a way to separate Ridley Scott’s Gladiator from Ridley Scott’s Napoleon....
...The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry D Watson (Bloomsbury Academic) Sweden’s Nobel family, chiefly associated nowadays with the Nobel Prize, were...
...“History, always history” was his passion, Napoleon an early hero. At a loss over what to buy his father for Christmas in 1976, he’d alighted on Pierrepoint’s autobiography....
...Lilah Raptopoulos Do you ever wonder what exactly was off about Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, or why Dolly Parton’s new rock album is impossible to dislike?...
...“I like to call her the first influencer,” laughs Emilie Metge Viargues, the Parisian brand’s CEO and president, explaining that in the mid 19th-century, the wife of Napoleon III “was an insane fan of Christofle...
...Demna said he felt his previous collection had been too “polished”, and he’d wanted this collection to feel rougher, more like himself: “I don’t care a lot about luxury or the whole idea of it, because I...
...Can there be a more resonant piece for our statue-bashing era than Magritte’s disembodied cast of Napoleon’s head painted as a cloud, floating away?...
...An object I would never part with is a Golconda diamond that used to belong to [Napoleon’s consort] Joséphine de Beauharnais, in a ring given to me by my father....
...“No, no, because Napoleon has been settled with treaties at the end of the empire in 1815.”...
...We’d love to have her in there.” The deal was struck, and a small speaking part secured alongside the fee....
...Napoleon was an early adopter, instructing his army to have transfer paper and portable presses brought to the battlefields so that artist-reporters could dispatch news of his successes....
...Ah, to the desserts, where the French themselves are prone to jeux d’esprit, vols de fantaisie and élans d’imagination. Where will Chef Harris take us?...
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