Jean-Christophe Buisson: "There is more Bonaparte than Napoleon in Macron"

The year 2021 will therefore be the year of Napoleon, who died on May 5, 1821, in Saint Helena.

Deputy director of

Figaro Magazine

, historian and author of several books, Jean-Christophe Buisson, with his lively and erudite prose, illustrated the 400 photos taken across the world of Annabelle Matter and Alexis Gerard.

These are brought together in their work

Napoleon.

The Spirit of the Place

(Michel Lafon).

If the Emperor embodies the reconciliation of the French or even authority, he also represents despotism or the reestablishment of slavery in Saint-Domingue.

LE FIGARO.

- For the commemoration of the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, Emmanuel Macron would like to organize at Les Invalides, in the presence of Vladimir Poutine, a burial ceremony for the recently found remains of General Gaudin, killed in 1812, at the start of the Russian campaign.

Is it a good idea?

Jean-Christophe BUISSON.

- Emmanuel Macron, like his predecessors, does not engage in commemorative ceremonies of a historical nature

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