Darwin, Tortoises and St Helena
The recent death of the Galapagos Islands’ iconic tortoise, Lonesome George, sent me scrambling for my copy of The Voyage of the HMS Beagle. Sure enough, Charles Darwin, who made…
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Géricault’s Napoleonic Cavalry Officer
…Géricault.” His comment sent me scrambling for the DVD where I store my Louvre photos, certain I remembered the piece he had in mind. Sure enough, here’s my photo of…
Ajaccio Cathedral
…reputedly smelled dreadful, due to the local custom of burying the untreated dead beneath its floor—combined with the stench of butcher shops just outside its doors. Thankfully, the bodies have…
FINDING NAPOLEON BONAPARTE AT THE FBI
…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…
Jacques-Louis David’s Painting of the Coronation of Napoleon toured the United States in 1826
…at Waterloo and the Bourbon king’s restoration the painting belonged to the French state. Understandably, Napoleon’s regal competitors didn’t wish to display the glory of the “Upstart Emperor.” It wasn’t…
First Day in Napoleon’s Hometown
…hometown has whitewashed Napoleon’s colorful history to turn the complex man into a flat heroic figure. I’m sure that Corsica has much more to teach me in the coming days….
200th Anniversary of the Russian Campaign
…recommend Jacob Walter’s Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier. This two-hundred page volume, which includes current commentary, comes from of the diary of Jacob Walter, a German infantryman conscripted into…
Napoleon’s Corsican Grotto
…the island) came to tell him his scholarship at military school in France had been approved. The illustration of Charles Bonaparte and Marbeuf visiting Napoleon at his grotto comes from…
Record of Napoleon’s Burial
While looking through St Helena’s official archives, I found the record of Napoleon’s death and burial in May, 1821. In the middle of the page is the entry, “Napoleon Bonaparte,…
Scholars
…you, my scholars Masson, Cronin, Markham, Tulard, Carrington, Abbott, Hicks, de Chair, and many, many others. In the coming days, I’ll add a Sources page to this website to list…