In a charming fantasia on how the last years of Napoleon's life might have gone, The Emperor's New Clothes—an adaptation of Simon Leys's novella The Death of Napoleon—features a Bonaparte who plots a ...
In the latest edition of Smithsonian Magazine, biographer Andrew Roberts fashions a lengthy redemption of Napoleon Bonaparte as leader, lover, and much-admired administrator. There is a reason to ...
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