Awaiting Napoleon with violets and hidden tricolors
Running towards Napoleon, the soldiers cheered and removed their tricolors from their coat pockets to boldly display on their hats.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Running towards Napoleon, the soldiers cheered and removed their tricolors from their coat pockets to boldly display on their hats.
When Josephine fell from a balcony, tThe doctor didn’t expect her to live, since her internal injuries were so severe, yet she healed.
Napoleon’s sister, Caroline, married one of his generals and together they ruled parts of Italy, including the land upon which Pompeii was secretly buried.
After much talk to make Napoleon an emperor, Napoleon consulted the public, then his generals, then his lawyers all approved, except Josephine.
We have been learning from this book that the oft told message is only one side of the story, the side the Coalition against France wanted us to know.
This extensive freedom of religion which was unique in Europe, was a first for the Jews since they lost their homeland of Palestine hundreds of years before.
I highly recommend chapter 13, Rebuilding France, which analyzes how Napoleon flipped around a new government that failed under several previous leaders.
Napoleon wrote down his conflicted feelings in the form of a dialogue, which he copied and distributed to hopefully end the civil war, but nothing changed.
This British author with a degree from Oxford, wrote this book in 1970 because of stunning new research that unveiled a different Napoleon than oft described.
Napoleon introduced himself as: Emperor of France, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, etc, etc, etc.