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...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...“No, no, because Napoleon has been settled with treaties at the end of the empire in 1815.”...
...When the empress Joséphine commissioned architect Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine to remodel her bedroom at the château de Fontainebleau, she wanted, naturally, to consult her husband, Napoleon....
...Or compare Napoleon’s mistake in waging war on Russia to Chinese emperors trying to conquer Korea 1,200 years earlier?...
...“If I were King of Lisbon, I would soon rule over the whole world,” said Charles V of Portugal’s 16th-century capital....
...The 1066 satirists of English history were writing about Roundheads v Cavaliers. For the Economist, it is liberals versus the rest. What has it been right about?...
...Once Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1519, the Habsburg challenge became far more considerable....
...This accounts for the contortions that successive presidents from William McKinley (war v Imperial Spain) to Wilson (war v Wilhelmine Germany) and FDR (war v Nazi Germany and Japan) went through in the search...
...(Napoleon begged Canova — who refused — to show him in military dress.)...
...Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A, said the items — 20 of which will be displayed for a year — had come to London in less than pretty circumstances....
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...The historian Sergey Bondarenko jokes: “Not since Napoleon’s invasion have so many Muscovites fled Moscow.”...
...At the time there was shock, horror and — since the opera had come to Paris at the behest of Napoleon III — anti-Bonapartist anger....
...This is the idea that historical events are largely driven by the skill, charisma and power of exceptional individuals such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon and, perhaps, Uber’s Travis Kalanick....
...I head to the Château de Cheverny, the inspiration for Marlinspike in the Tintin books, and look at portraits by Titian and Raphael, and furniture by Napoleon’s furniture maker, Georges Jacob....
...But some of us actually know the history of the European Economic Community, right back to its foundation by Napoleon. So I’ve been rethinking the serious stuff. Food!...
...The church, suppressed like many others by Napoleon in the early 19th century, has not been accessible for 20 years except for a brief moment in 2013 when Mexican artist Ariel Guzik’s ingenious musical machine...
...Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III and a fashion plate of her era, had a penchant for clothes in pale violet, “to match her eyes”....
...His new V-A-C art centre in Moscow is set to open in 2018 or 2019, housed in a defunct electrical power station....
...I adore the V&A because it is a walk through the world, a place of endless discovery; and the Royal Academy and the Tate, which have the most wonderful exhibitions....
..., a vast marble — stupendously homoerotic — statue of Napoleon in the buff....
...They were right about that, and sufficiently determined that stopping them required more than 10,000 troops at a time when the British army might have preferred to focus on Napoleon....
...Holding Napoleon off until reinforcements arrived, Wellington was much helped by heavy rain before the battle....
...To add insult to injury, he rounded off his perorations with the announcement that £2m would be spent commemorating the anniversaries of Napoleon’s loss to the English at Waterloo in 1815 and Henry V’s victory...
...The Roman empire had a similar system, and pretty much all armies operated with postal courier systems until Napoleon adopted semaphore in 1805....
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