Finding Napoleon at Notre Dame Cathedral
…the Emperor’s exile on St Helena relates his practical approach as a conqueror when Napoleon tells her, “I always adopt the religion of the country I am in.” Napoleon’s Concordat…
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FINDING NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AT THE FBI
…depicts him as Napoleon himself. It’s comparing Roosevelt’s effort to become a three-term president to Emperor Napoleon’s disastrous return to power after his first exile. A blustering Teddy Roosevelt stands…
Finding Napoleon in London — Admiral Cockburn
…those arguments. Admiral Cockburn delivered Napoleon to St Helena on October 16, 1815. He stayed on the island long enough to turn over custody of Europe’s most famous prisoner to…
Finding Napoleon in Montreal
…on this grand bust of “The Apotheosis of Napoleon.” As proof of Napoleon’s international allure, a Scotsman commissioned it from the Danish-born sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1829. Thorvaldsen, whose studio…
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’S DRAMATIC RISE TO POWER
…a visual story of Napoleon’s meteoric rise to power. Here are three pieces that touch on Napoleon Bonaparte’s early career: Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte as a Young Man in 1796…
First Visit to Napoleonic Sites on St Helena
…sloop arrived four days before the rest of the squadron carrying the exiled emperor, little St Helena had no idea it was going to host Napoleon’s incarceration. Local officials scrambled…
The Briars, Napoleon’s First St Helena Residence
In 1815, a few days before Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St Helena, a fast sloop brought the governor news that the island had been chosen for the defeated emperor’s exile….
Finding Napoleon in Berlin
…state of affairs in Europe. Those who lost paid not only in lives and land, but in cultural treasure. As one small example, a hundred years before Napoleon, just days…
Finding Napoleon in Washington, DC
…National Sculpture Garden. Sure enough, there was the extract of Napoleon’s face from that magnificent painting. The next Napoleon sighting was at one of the most popular spots in the…
A BOOK REVIEW: To Befriend an Emperor, Betsy Balcombe’s Memoirs
…as Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon on the Island of St Helena, by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell.) As I covered in my last blog, Napoleon’s first home on St Helena…