Ecole Militaire, Paris
Nine years in impoverished Corsica followed by six years in countrified Brienne couldn’t have prepared fifteen-year-old Napoleon for the Paris Ecole Militaire. He must have been overwhelmed when he first…
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My Travels
Margaret Rodenberg on the road! In the first line of his novel Clisson, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote his hero was born for war. In contrast, I think I was born to be a tourist.…