Under the N's, bees and eagles, under the cocked hat and frock coat, what exactly did Napoleon love?
The book by Philippe Costamagna, director in Ajaccio of the museum which bears the name of Bonaparte's uncle, is the first to synthesize the tastes of the Emperor.
Tastes and also dislikes: painting, sculpture, furniture, literature, shows (682 opera performances!), Architecture, cuisine, women ...
Here then, in the great army of publications linked to the bicentenary of the death of Corsica, a way as original as it is relevant to evoke man.
Because reading leaves scents of leather and cologne as much as illuminating anecdotes.
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Intimate and secret Napoleon: his passions, his manias, his loves ...
Bonaparte, like Napoleon with less gold, appreciates the functional.
And so much the better if it combines with the comfortable.
He himself would have designed the ingenious mechanism of the transformation desk for his office in Compiègne.
And its green and gold seat in the Tuileries cabinet is the ancestor of our rotating office chairs.
For the Little Corporal, no sphinxes
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