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...Also a bottle of Klein Constantia pudding wine, Napoleon’s favourite. At this time of year every room needs an open fire....
...He claimed his first victim in Anthony Horowitz’s anthology series for the BBC, Murder in Mind; the next was in Heroes and Villains, a BBC drama-documentary about Napoleon....
...Napoleon had caused havoc in the European continent, yet France was allowed back into the family of states. A long period of peace followed....
...The youngest French head of state since Napoleon, Mr Macron on Sunday came across as someone determined to control the pace of events, and who was not taking any element of the job lightly....
...Maybe Jefferson did not know exactly what he was offered, or whether he had authority to buy it, or whether Napoleon had authority to sell it....
...Dominic Cummings, a former Tory adviser now running a “Brexit” campaign, once remarked: “As Bismarck said about Napoleon III, Cameron is a sphinx without a riddle. There’s no mystery to him....
...They include a German soldier’s muddied birth certificate, a note that four British soldiers have been locked up for drunkenness a month before the battle and a letter to Private George Davis from his girlfriend...
...Ricardo not only made a fortune in the City of London – he was holding a year’s worth of British government bonds when Napoleon lost at Waterloo – but also invented chunks of economic theory, including a...
...Counterfactuals are the kind of guessing game we play when we wonder what would have happened if, say, Napoleon had won the battle of Waterloo....
...Davis turned to the classical music of the period – “If the whole film is a biography, a portrait of Napoleon, it could also be a study in the music of Napoleon’s time – Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Cherubini...
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
...Robb’s inventiveness is boundless: he even recounts the career of Juliette Gréco, a Resistance heroine, jazz diva and muse of Jean-Paul Sartre and Miles Davis, in the form of a screenplay....
...From 1902 to 1914, wealthy American Theodore Davis held the Egyptian government’s concession to excavate in the Valley of the Kings....
...I have made a Brazilian acquaintance on my Chinese Module 1 course: his name is Nafplio (changed to Napoleon by our charming teacher, Ting Poon)....
...Davis, who wrote the new score for the film, loves writing music for Garbo....
...MY UNCLE NAPOLEON by Iraj Pezeshkzad translated by Dick Davis introduction by Azar Nafisi Random House £9.99, 528 pages Iran is rarely out of the news with its fight over nuclear weapons, its Islamic theocracy...
...Napoleon in Egypt: The Greatest Glory By Paul Strathern Jonathan Cape £20, 480 pages FT bookshop price: £16 Napoleon’s inglorious dry run for his disastrous invasion of Russia was aimed at the conquest...
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