FINDING NAPOLEON IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
…Napoleon Bonaparte’s time in exile on St Helena Island. I was thrilled to see the painting (below) of Longwood House, Napoleon’s long-time residence on St Helena. It’s a gouache (opaque…
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Finding Napoleon: Propaganda from a Plague
…Does he deserve this heroic portrayal? As usual with Napoleon, the truth is complicated. And Napoleon’s exploitation of art as propaganda muddies the picture. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign In 1799, at…
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…finish Napoleon’s manuscript. Now, in FINDING NAPOLEON, the aging Emperor finishes his own manuscript while struggling to escape exile and recover his young son. Napoleon’s last love, the audacious and…
Napoleon’s Pastimes on St Helena
…to say that just when it looked as if he had lost, Napoleon would gain the final advantage using strategy his opponent hadn’t foreseen. That seems much more like the…
Finding Napoleon (and Shakespeare) on St Helena Day
…in the Southern Hemisphere. While St Helena’s fame rests on Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile, a Portuguese named Fernão Lopes ranks as the island’s strangest inhabitant. In 1512, in India, Lopes (also…
Napoleon’s Exile on St Helena 200th Anniversary
…to St Helena. Despite his heroic effort to avoid that fate, St Helena is where Napoleon spent his last five and a half years under an ignoble British house arrest.…
The 200th Anniversary of Napoleon’s Death
…vanished. In their honor, here’s a link to St. Helena’s ceremony at Napoleon’s residence Longwood House, held today for an international audience via Live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEtcGIstCys Longwood House St Helena…
FINDING NAPOLEON ON MAY 5
…as his body awaited autopsy. Based on his drawings, Ibbetson painted the strikingly modern painting shown above. He gave the painting to Napoleon’s last rival, St Helena’s governor Sir Hudson…
Finding Napoleon in London
…to be of interest today. Before leaving on this trip, I queried my colleagues at the Napoleonic Historical Society for recommendations with a Napoleonic twist. I’ve been to London several…
FINDING NAPOLEON IN CUBA
…artifacts on this floor include two of Napoleon’s death masks, Napoleon’s molar that was extracted on St Helena, and a container of dried Everlasting Daisies from St Helena (a flower…