Finding Napoleon

Toothbrush and Slippers

We’re home from our March travels to Paris and Corsica.   First, I had to catch up all I’d missed while away; now I’m struggling to prepare for our month-long St Helena voyage in May.  Meanwhile, there’s tons more to write about Paris and Corsica.  So stick with me—the adventure has just begun! One of my

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Why Napoleon Bonaparte?

He is the epitome of France, yet he didn’t speak French until he was nine.   The second son of minor, impoverished Corsican nobility, he attended military school on the French king’s sou.  By age thirty, he had supplanted that monarch as France’s ruler. He faced battle fearlessly but could be petulant over a slight head

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