"Napoleon Before the Character Assassination" Topic

"The article below appeared in the British paper The Sunday Telegraph on May 5th 2019 and reveals how Napoleon was seen BEFORE the merciless character assassination that occurred after he became First Consul and as he was depicted by subsequent English 'historians' who amplified the lies and distortions even more.

Irish nobleman's account of a meeting in 1803 belies the propaganda image of the French Emperor…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Wow. The blog you link to is, lets just say, not very even-handed! Every post paints Napoleon as a veritable saint; his enemies as conniving, evil swine.

Lord Liverpool PM, personally ordered the hunting down and execution of Napoleons officers after the war, for instance.
"To pretend that Britain was a nation of laws, freedom and liberty during this period is nothing more than a revolting sick joke.", another quote.

The first sentence makes the extreme bias all too clear.

This "author" specializes in this sort of thing. He wholeheartedly endorses Napoleon as saint and trashes everyone who doesn't agree with him, especially when he goes off the reservation about how true the "murder by arsenic" theory is, and how wonderful Ben Weider was to have publicized it.

Quite the quack…

For those who may be interested, here's the link to Tarttelin's "book," and the reviews and comments.

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Maggie is absolutely correct in her assessment. The author is not an historian and is a Weider admirer along with the long-disabused idea that Napoleon was poisoned.

In short, anything written by him should be taken with a very large salt pill.

Glup!….

Amicalement
Armand