Bonapart’s coming…
Mar 31, 2021
2 minutes
THERE IS A famous series of newspaper headlines, spaced out over less than two weeks, covering the emperor Napoleon’s march across France to Paris, where he reclaimed imperial power.
When he first escaped his punitive exile on the island of Elba, he was described as a cannibal (anthropophage), and “the Corsican Ogre”. And so it went on: Monster, Tiger, Usurper... the epithets losing power the
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