The year 2021 will be in history a Napoleon year.
"Again !"
some will say.
It all really depends on how to deal with the same event.
Napoleon having died on May 5, 1821, at 5:49 p.m., several historians logically return to this anniversary.
In this regard, we will read the account of
Napoleon's
life
on Saint Helena
by Pierre Branda (Perrin), as well as David Chanteranne's reflections on
Les Douze Morts de Napoléon
(Compound past).
The author recalls that Napoleon, even if he embodies everything that the Anglo-Saxon media hate today, is still very present in the hearts of the French and perhaps he will always be a little more so. that he acts as a reprobate of the doxa across the Atlantic.
We remember Stendhal's words: "
I respect Washington but he annoys me, while the young General Bonaparte transports me far differently than the most beautiful pages of Homer or Tasso.
»For amateurs, always at Perrin,
L'Histoire des Cent-Jours
by Charles-Eloi
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