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...It was decisive in their victories over Napoleon and Nazi Germany, and in what Kyiv-born writer Mikhail Bulgakov called that “great and terrible year” of 1918....
...For Mason, the trial provided yet another example of how the Directory helped open the door to Napoleon’s coup in 1799....
...“My financial adviser has been exiled like Napoleon on Elba. Is that the way you treat your clients?”...
...The Terror and militant political extremism gave way to a more conservative regime that Napoleon Bonaparte swept aside in 1799....
...Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadowsby Ruth Scurr, Chatto & Windus £30/Liveright $28.95 Some 200 years after his death, it might seem an impossible challenge to write something new about Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Connoisseurs of art history would recognise the painting as a take on Jacques-Louis David’s famous portrait of Napoleon crossing the Alps....
...Switzerland’s dozens of other ultra-discreet, storied private banks — depositories such as Lombard Odier, once lender to Napoleon — have watched their clients’ assets surge this year....
...But Gavin & Stacey, written by James Corden and Brydon’s childhood friend Ruth Jones, was his first bona fide hit....
...Lucerne was last — briefly — the country’s capital under Napoleon when he invaded in 1798. Mr Uhlmann believes a digital solution — like that in the UK — could work....
...Never afraid to take on the biggest projects, she is currently planning a series about Napoleon....
...We went from the ancient Elamite ziggurat city of Chogha Zanbil in the southwestern desert, to Mashhad in the north-east, where the mausoleum of the 18th-century emperor Nader Shah — the so-called “Napoleon...
...How is the Third (the Eroica ) Symphony — an undeniably innovative work — a “revolutionary symphony” if it was written with Napoleon in mind, a man who infamously took power in 1799 by declaring “the revolution...
...Austen was unlucky in the timing of the main payment from Mansfield Park’s publisher, he notes: it arrived just a couple of months too early to benefit from the abolition of income tax that followed Napoleon...
...There was the mad king; a revolution in France; the threat of insurrection at home; and Britain fought a war of survival against Napoleon....
...In 1791, Sakuntala, William Jones’ English translation of a play by the Indian playwright Kalidasa, was translated into German....
...Casting is sumptuous: Suranne Jones plays Miss Pinkerton, owner of the academy from which Becky flees in the opening moments, crying “Vive Napoleon!”...
...truer in 2018 than Malta — an island on which, as in Sicily, some 100km to the north, tradition has met disruption for several millennia, thanks to a roster of invaders ranging from the Carthaginians to Napoleon...
...Alphonse Legros was more or less a Pre-Raphaelite: an earnest portrait of red-bearded Edward Burne-Jones and painstaking genre scenes “The Tinker” and “The Soup Kitchen” are among 16 works on display....
...In the village of La Livinière, Benjamin Darnault makes the Boulevard Napoléon wines for Trevor Gulliver of St John restaurant in London....
...Napoleon adored science: his 1798 invasion of Egypt included more than 150 scholars, in order to collect all available knowledge....
...When another former war secretary insisted on clearing the Strangers’ Gallery of journalists, the radical orator John Gale Jones publicised the proceedings of that motion and was himself imprisoned for his...
...five very entertaining novels in which Moriarty, poacher turned gamekeeper, is called on to solve crimes, while Kim Newman’s The Hound of the D’Urbervilles (2011) is a riotous romp focusing both on the Napoleon...
...“The Russians were the adversary who dropped the sword and picked up a club,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in War and Peace, speaking of field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov’s partisan campaign against Napoleon....
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