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...I’ve just finished writing a book on Napoleon Bonaparte, who famously remarked, “They wanted me to be another Washington.”...
...Valentino always draws a starry crowd, and outside the venue onlookers in the street pushed to glimpse celebrities including Florence Pugh, Cher and actors Penn Badgley and Andrew Garfield....
...A key factor for this is the popularity of the Livret A, a 200-year-old savings account designed to help restore France’s public finances after Napoleon Bonaparte’s wars....
...When Andrew Edmunds came over to your table at the London restaurant that bore his name, or at the Academy private members’ club above it, there was a good chance you were about to pay the “Andrew tax”....
...Roberts is keen to dispel myths of megalomania, until Harmsworth’s final short illness destroys his mind — although a life-long fascination with Napoleon has always seemed a bit of a giveaway....
...The writer is a Cabinet Office minister and head of the prime minister’s policy unit Napoleon may have observed that an army marches on its stomach but it was one of his biographers, American journalist...
...One of the keys to the success of the Vienna system was that the victors chose to define their enemy as Napoleon himself, not his country....
...Didn’t Napoleon say that? Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets . . ....
...Even with Haussman in Paris, it was actually Napoleon III. It was his vision and Haussman was the sort of implementer of this kind of vision....
...Martin Waller’s West Sussex home, a Georgian country pile rising majestically from the verdancy of 30 acres, is everything one would expect from the man behind the international design firm Andrew Martin...
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...There are risks and rewards of remote working, Andrew Hill warns, including transparency....
...The Napoleonic wars offer insights into Napoleon’s particular command-and-control style — he empowered his army in that he made it clear what he wanted but expected his soldiers to use their initiative and...
...It was like when the Russian army abandoned Moscow in order to escape Napoleon. That is, tactically, Mr Johnson played a blinder....
...The brand has floundered a little over the past few years, thrashing around for new directions, which are now coming together under creative director Paul Andrew, formerly a shoe specialist who has shown...
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US business editor Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Farewell Martin Sorrell: As WPP chief executive makes a quiet exit, Andrew Hill reflects on one of the advertising industry’s most tenacious and outspoken voices....
...Be sure to read Lex, which compares Sorrell to a modern-day Napoleon (forced into exile but likely to come back)....
..., an American podcast hosted by Andrew Jenks that offers new perspectives on past people and events....
...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...
...I was keen to see the skeleton of Napoleon’s horse, Marengo. From David’s stirring painting “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” I’d expected Marengo to be a mighty charger....
...In the past few months Andrew Airnes, the local reserves warden, has cleared undergrowth from Elliot’s Path, a 3.6km trail contouring around Green Mountain below the peak....
...Andrew Puzder is also prone to the occasional streak of political incorrectness....
...Napoleon is reported to have had 30 bottles of Grand Constance dessert wine shipped from Cape Town every month in his final years....
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