Happy Birthday, Empress Josephine!
…you her birth year was 1767, which was what she wrote on her marriage documents. Napoleon also lied on those documents, saying he, too, had been born in 1767 instead…
…you her birth year was 1767, which was what she wrote on her marriage documents. Napoleon also lied on those documents, saying he, too, had been born in 1767 instead…
Last weekend, my husband Bert and I attended the Napoleonic Historical Society’s annual conference. Held this year in Baltimore, Maryland, the agenda included lectures on Napoleonic topics as well as…
…moral questions are, Napoleon’s swift actions on that day saved the French Revolution and quashed the return of the monarchy—until the fall of his own empire almost twenty years later….
…Battle of Trafalgar, both French disasters, would be recreated every day. “It’s going to be fun for the whole family,” Mr. Jégo told the London Times. Is this mockery simply…
…and Company, 1959. Les Cases. Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné. Memorial de Sainte Hélène, Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St Helena. Memphis, General Books, 2010. Reprint of…
…I like nothing better than to be on the road. By now, I’ve visited most of the U.S. states and over sixty countries. For an author like me, travel broadens…
When I recently rediscovered Georgette Heyer’s historical novel, AN INFAMOUS ARMY, I realized it was the first Napoleonic novel I had ever read. I was thirteen when my mother introduced…
If you are reading this blog, you probably know that Napoleon Bonaparte spent his last six years in exile on St Helena Island in the remote south Atlantic Ocean. I…
…too. The caption of that faded photo reads “The Meeting of the Great.” However, our twenty-sixth president was also compared less favorably to Napoleon Bonaparte. For example, this 1912 cartoon…
…in cardinals’ robes. Those two real-life cardinals peek over the Emperor-to-be’s shoulder. Napoleon, with his epaulettes, medals, sword and pointer, dominates the scene as he will dominate all of Europe…