"Napoleon and the Revolution" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Nov 2016 3:31 p.m. PST |
"A recent author calculates from an unattributed assertion that more books and articles have been written on the subject of Napoleon Bonaparte … than days have passed since the ex-emperor's death …' some sixty thousand titles. Indeed, as Thierry Lentz points out, there is virtually nothing we do not know about Napoleon. His whereabouts on every day once he became important are chronicled. So too are the number of hats made for him (between 160 and 170), the number of culottes he brought to St Helena (19), the color of his eyes and hair as well as his height either a bit over five-feet-five or five-feet-five and nearly a half (1.681.69 meters) how many plays and operas he attended when in Paris (more than 700), and much much more. Anyone who would add to the still growing count owes readers some explanation. Napoleon was, as many agree, the child and heir of the Revolution…" Free to read here link Amicalement Armand |
Brechtel198 | 07 Dec 2016 3:49 a.m. PST |
In 1964 it was calculated that over a quarter of a million books had been written about Napoleon and his period of history. And about half of them were a waste of good paper and printer's ink. |
Tango01 | 07 Dec 2016 10:45 a.m. PST |
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