Finding Napoleon in Portland, Oregon
I actually was in Oregon because of Napoleon Bonaparte. You see, that’s where the Historical Novel Society held this year’s conference. It’s a historical novelist’s dream: a hotel full of…
I actually was in Oregon because of Napoleon Bonaparte. You see, that’s where the Historical Novel Society held this year’s conference. It’s a historical novelist’s dream: a hotel full of…
…that wasn’t how he had left six years before. On graduation from French military school in 1785, sixteen-year-old Napoleon received his commission as a second lieutenant. He spent the next…
…true and beautiful feeling.” His secretary Las Cases mentions him reading from the Bible, while commenting on the places he had visited during his Egyptian Campaign, which had extended into…
…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…
…Napoleon spent the last five years of his life in exile (and which I visited in 2011), is a particular fascination of mine. My novel, FINDING NAPOLEON—with its adaptation…
…Complex as a part of his Theory of Personality. In it, he attributed excessive aggressive behavior to short men due to their inferiority complex. To this day, research goes on…
…crown himself rather than allowing the pope to do it). Years later, Emperor Napoleon imprisoned that same pope within its walls for eighteen months until he agreed to give up…
War Games, by Donna Lomangino, available at www.lomanginoart.com My brother Jimmy and my sister-in-law Helen gave me this fun portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte playing video games. That someone would even…
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…his queen, Louise. His hosts weren’t at home—following the Prussian army’s disastrous losses at Jena and Auderstädt, the monarchs had taken refuge in the eastern corner of their realm. Napoleon…