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...To some of his contemporaries, and to some later historians, there was something fake or repugnant about Napoleon III....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...Both Scott and Macaulay were beneficiaries of a wave of writing that began in the later 18th century by the likes of the costume historian Joseph Strutt and the eccentric vegetarian radical Joseph Ritson...
...Harold McGraw III, Chairman, McGraw Hill Financial; Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprises Victor Fung, Chairman, Fung Group Marcus...
...Without Scott, Victor Hugo would never have written Les Misérables (1862); Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi (1827); Tolstoy War and Peace....
...Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Sweden; and Chairman, ICC Victor Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung Group of Companies, Hong Kong, China; and Vice-Chairman, ICC Jean-René...
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