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...It was left to artists who were not French to register the horror and misery experienced by ordinary folk who had been fed into the gaping maw of Napoleon’s relentless war machine....
...I sometimes get asked what books folk should read for a career in finance....
...In France, at least, turmoil is a part of folk memory. The British are less prepared for the decay of political order....
...Yablonska is thrilled to sit next to Maria Primachenko, Ukraine’s most prominent artist, whose bright, colourful folk paintings were admired by Picasso and Chagall....
...A song sung in English by a Swedish group is blithely comparing Napoleon’s Anglo-Prussian defeat at Waterloo in 1815 with a coup de foudre....
...The cliché explanation is that the out-of-touch Paris elite has no idea how ordinary folk are suffering. This argument has many holes....
...On one side the damned are being ushered into hell, while on the other, looking faintly smug, good folk are being led heavenwards, no doubt mumbling, “I told you so”....
...One would think the folks who brought us Gustavus Adolphus, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Julius Caesar, the Duke of Parma, and the Duke of Wellington could manage to defend themselves (if they were finally...
...Starting with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, The Islamic Enlightenment charts the history of how these ideas interacted with the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries....
...The Republican rap against Mr Obama is that his thoughtfulness has led him to indecisiveness; cut him off from the righteous anger of plain folks....
...Mr Wright doubled down on Mr Trump, making him executive producer of the programme with the power to fire the folks standing in his way....
...Mr Burrows was a Napoleon of fare dodgers. He gamed London Transport’s Oyster card system and paid about a third of the daily commute from home to Cannon Street....
...This did not stop him immersing himself in every conceivable historical source, in many languages, on Napoleon and the history of Russia 1805-1812....
...Folk who were once cartographically-averse now scroll with alacrity through digital maps....
...Painting is just a representation of history, like Napoleon riding on a white horse. German Romanticism captured the sea in painting, kind of expanding the tense of history....
...So far I have responded to such impertinent folk by mocking them publicly in my column....
...Historically, England’s peasants played folk games, while the ruling class enjoyed martial activities such as hunting, jousting and fencing....
...FASHION Grace: A Memoir, by Grace Coddington, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25 The long-awaited autobiography of the Vogue fashion editor-turned-folk hero....
...That first evening, Jean talks to me about how she and Bob, city folk, have worked their own ground as winegrowers on a holding once bequeathed to William Penn, the state’s founder....
...Elsewhere a Ukelele Lady rubs shoulders with Longfellow and Napoleon. A closing mass singalong on “Shallow Brown” caps off a delightful album....
...They are drawn to the Western Front, not by the ultimate victory, but the folk-memory of cock-up and futility; it is the triumph of what Baldwin calls the “Blackadder school of history”....
...The Royalist Hotel (established 947 AD, “the oldest inn in England”) must have coped with the Conqueror, the Black Death, Cromwell, Napoleon and Hitler. But Stow Fair is too much. Door locked....
...Coppélia is a late fruit of Napoleon III’s Paris, first seen in May 1870 just as the Second Empire was to plunge to extinction....
...The show’s writers and producers, who naturally resent the suggestion that they had somehow helped to make torture acceptable (“it’s a fantasy, folks”), decided that they had better change the programme...
...His book begins with the restoration of the monarchy following the (first) downfall of Napoleon....
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