A Year of Napoleon | Books to Read in 2021
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2021
- "Show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world." --Napoleon Bonaparte
Books I Mentioned:
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Aristo
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas
Rome, Naples and Florence by Stendhal
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
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Great! You are the first person that established herself a goal of reading that year about the Emp... I mean, Napoleon.
Can I just say I've been binging your channel like a mad person since I found it! You really make the best videos and you're my new favourite youtuber! Thanks!! xx from Copenhagen
Thank you so much!! I studied in Copenhagen-it’s still my favorite place in the world.
Even though I know nothing about Napoleon other than that he was exiled, I love that you’ve fallen in love (if you will) with him to the extent that you’ve structured a year’s worth of reading around getting to “know” a historical figure as a friend. It reminded me of Kat’s friend who is in love with Shakespeare in “10 Things I Hate About You.” It kinda makes me want to learn more about this Napoleon fella. I look forward to watch your friendship grow.
It’s funny you mention “10 Things I Hate About You” because I just recently watched it again! Thank you for this comment, it really made my week!
You’re buddy reading with Napoleon!!
I too am reading Montaigne essays.
What a terrific idea. Beautifully done. I adore War and Peace - and just piled through it. My coach was on tour dancing in Yugoslavia and travel was by road. She read W and P right through, then went back to the beginning and read it again.
Ooh this seems like a fun project! ❤️
I love the idea behind this project! My dad actually read that same biography of Napoleon last year and has been encumbered to pick it up. I’m also interested to hear your thoughts on War and Peace, particularly after you have been learning about Napoleon. I almost feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I had been more knowledgeable about the time period. Good luck with your goals!
I’m feeling hopeful about War and Peace but have no idea how to undertake it 😂
Great project!! Loved Andrew Robert's Napoleon!! All the books sound great! Want to also tackle War and Peace. I loved the 2016 BBC adaptation with Lily James! Wow!
Yes, the Lily James adaptation is utterly beautiful! Hopefully we both enjoy War and Peace.
I loved this video! I always liked the figure of Napoleon but I never studied much about it and I will definitely read a lot more about his story because of this video. You said he was a great book lover and I was immediately super interested and even a little bit in love with his bookish intellectuality.
I read Plutarch in college and I really liked what I read, I think you might like it too. From what I remember, Plutarch doesn't have a very heavy and philosophical writing, I found it relatively easy and even in a way, I found his writing poetic.
I love Michel de Montaigne's essays, they are dense, very dense and complex, but he makes an extensive reflection on the society of his time, namely on the setbacks between the public and the private and mainly on conceptions of the body, love and sexual relationships. Montaigne not only addresses these themes, but these were some of many that made me fall in love with his essays. In my opinion the edition of Penguin that contains the complete essays is good and I think it is worth your purchase.
But the edition of Everyman's Library is more complete, because it has not only essays, but also other works and letters.
Vive l'Empereur ! I had the same Book.
The "Alexandre Dumas" one.
Great video and a great idea. My favourite translation of the Iliad is Richmond Lattimore though Caroline Alexander's is also great. When I first became interested in history as a boy, Napoleon was one of those interests. He reformed so much of civil life notably the Code, which is on the desk of every notaire here in France.
I’ve just reached all of the information on the Code and it’s fascinating! I recently got an audiobook of the Lattimore translation so I’m looking forward to listening to it.
What a great Napoleon quote in the description!
Yes! It really was. Cemented my love for him.
I was searching a brief intro of this book before buying it. Will buy it for sure after watching this video 🎉
What a wonderful project! I’m so glad you’re going to read The Black Count, it’s excellent and one of the best biographies I ever read. War and Peace is also great, I read it in my teens and loved it. I would not recommend spliting your reading into bits, I think it best to read it straight through (but then I hardly ever have more than one book on the go). I’m impressed with your goal of to read Montaigne. It’s one of those classics that we often study at school in France, generally only extracts of his work and I remember finding the language very difficult. His Essays were written in old French so I hope the translation you choose will have modernized the language.
I also find it difficult to read more than one book at a time so maybe I will just block out a couple of months to read War and Peace. I’m really excited to read the Black Count, glad to hear you enjoyed it. Thank you for that advice on Montaigne. I’ll keep that in mind as I research it.
I read this book and I enjoyed it immensely. Napoleon was a modernizer and he was far ahead of his times.
I really didn’t think this video would interest me that much but your enthusiasm is infectious. I am really keen to read Napoleon The Great and when I saw the author I realised he also wrote Churchill Walking With Destiny. A book that I was scared to tackle but was interested in. I have just spent three hours listening to the audiobook on Churchill (47 hours to go) and it is great. I have reserved Napoleon at the library but am positive that I will buy a copy of it on my kindle with the added audio as it is the same narrator that has done Churchill. Thanks again for bringing novels to the table that one might often not consider reading. One of my favourite non fictions last year was yours (Romantic Outlaws) so I am very much swayed by your review of Napoleon.
I hope you enjoy it! I wasn't aware he had a Churchill bio--I will have to keep an eye out for that one. His writing is really wonderful.
When I saw the title of this video I hoped you were going to include War and Peace! I read it last winter and it has easily been one of the best reading experiences of my life. I read it over about 10 weeks with a group of people on IG. It broke down to something like 15 pages a day and I read the first section that way, but I found I enjoyed it way more if I spent at least and hour or so at a time, which for me is around 50 pages, that was much more immersive. I read the Constance Garnet version and had a great time with it, the french didn't bother me. I can't wait to see how this Napoleon project goes for you and I'm especially excited to hear your thoughts on War and Peace!!!
This has really made me feel better about War and Peace!! I'm glad to hear that you loved it and I also think your way of reading it will help me the most. I also need a good segment of time to get really immersed.
What a great idea! I enjoyed The Black Count. I’m reading The Count of Monte Cristo for March of the Mammoths. I’m still reading War & Peace, it’s wonderful, it’s just the print of my book is so tiny. I’m enjoying Anthony Briggs translation. It’s all English which is what I need. I don’t think you’ll have any trouble, it’s not a difficult read, just long, but a good kind of long ☺️
A lot of people have recommended the Briggs translation so I might look into that one!
Oh I love this concept! I hope you have a great year of reading like Napoleon
I Was Vermeer sounds amazing. Thank you for mentioning it!
@@jenniferbrooks Oh yay, I hope you like it! (Well, I also hope I like it haha, I have high hopes for it
I’m really not knowledgeable about this but I heard that Richard Pevear is the best translator. There’s a channel here that mentions this: Sophia Clef.
I love Sophia’s channel! I’ve heard a lot about Pevear so I will have to check that out.
Love your project. I lived in New Orleans for many years and one of the museums featured travelling exhibitions on Napoleon and I went to all of them. It was exciting to see items that he owned. One showed his military set up with tent, camp bed, and trunks. I remember the books being mentioned. Deb
Forgot to add that the Napoleonic Code is the law in Louisiana. The state flipped flopped between France and Spain but one day woke up American after the Louisiana Purchase. Women lost rights as Americans that they had under the French.
That is absolutely fascinating! I’m just now reading about the Napoleonic Code and it’s really interesting. I always forget he’s who sold the US the Louisiana Purchase.
Awesome project! I'm reading War & Peace right now, and I'm really enjoying the Anthony Briggs edition (he even translates all the french for you). W&P is actually fairly easy to read so far (I'm 30% in). You got this! All the best, Amy
I was just typing my comment when I noticed yours! I have had War and Peace for years and attempted to start it multiple times - I'm mulling over trying again this year! My translation is of Anthony Briggs, too - my first attempts to read this were of the Garnett and I gave up each time so I'm hoping that I will do better with the Briggs translation 😊 I bought that edition because Orlando Figes wrote the afterword and I love his Russian history texts.
Thank you, Amy! I might go with Briggs or Pevear. Maybe I can sample both before I commit 😂
I do love this project. You and Napoleon are going to be BFF''s for sure! He's important to me in the sense of his influencing Jane Austen's writings. I don't think he's ever mentioned, but he's there.
I read recently that St. Helena didn't have any reported cases of Covid-19, so though his exile there wasn't as promising, there are benefits to being isolated...
War and Peace is a must for me this year. I have the same B&N copy as you do which I started in 2019, and the French was kind of annoying, but after reading Charlotte Bronte I can probably deal with it. My issue was with the names! Anyway, I'm reading Constance Garnett's translation of Crime and Punishment and don't have a problem with it (except a sudden n-word, which will always be jarring.)
Maybe we can help inspire each other with War and Peace, lol. I know I'll need help being held accountable!
This is such an interesting project! The Black Count is also on my list this year. Once I finish up the Count of Monte Cristo I plan on picking it up! :) I finally got a copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell to read this year too!
Looks like we will have a lot of overlap!! Hopefully we both enjoy Jonathan Strange.
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Hi Jennifer. Happy New Year. Your project sounds fabulous! If you want more info especially about Napoleon and his life, the BBC did a dramatization of his life and his relationships with women called Napoleon and Love. Sir Ian Holm plays Napoleon and is wonderful. It was made in the 70s and can seem dated but it's really good. Christopher Hibbert wrote a book about his love life called Napoleon, His Wives and Women also excellent. Stay well❤
Oh, I will have to pick up Hibbert's book and watch the BBC dramatization. I do love the older BBC collections--I wish they did more similar things now.
Love hearing Beethoven's " Eroica " symphony while reading the Illiad.
amazing video
What a fabulous idea! Napoleon is such an annoying and fascinating character in War and Peace. I didn’t love the book but read it over a long period alternating with whichever translation I could get from my library so I think that probably it hurt the experience but I’ve got to say the war stuff wasn’t my favorite and the way he writes some of the female characters is irritating. I am reading Anna Karenina right now though and loving it, it’s the Maude translation which seems very good. I studied both Tom Jones and The Red and the Black many decades ago and so although my memory is vague I remember enjoying them both and yes, Tom Jones is very funny. I think there is a BBC adaptation of that too but quite an old one. Very much looking forward to your Napoleonic year !
Glad to hear you are enjoying Anna K!! I’m looking forward to getting started and Stendhal might be where I start. I’m curious to try the Red and the Black as well as the Charterhouse of Parma and see which one I prefer.
You're amazing
Yes! As an Italian, I can confirm we were required to study Orlando Furioso in high school, as well as La Gerusalemme Liberata by Torquato Tasso
I’m really looking forward to trying them!
@@jenniferbrooks I just read those last year (in French) and I can say they were wonderful reads, especially Torquato Tasso. It's one of the best poetry I've read so far
woo wee Thank you
I read W&P last year and really loved it! Obviously it took a long long time, but the writing was not nearly as dense and challenging as I expected. Sometimes the battles take some muscling through, but they are all interesting and further the home-front plot too!
Thank you! That makes me feel better about picking it up 😂
@@jenniferbrooks Judging from some of the stuff you read, I feel like W&P will be a breeze for you! Haha!
You are a riot! What a fun idea!! Some year, I need to have "a year of Jennifer Brooks" because all of your plans sound fun to me 😂
Speaking of which, I sadly just DNFed the Liveship Traders series by Robin Hobb and my schedule is now freer lol So I'm read for War and Peace anyntime your are!
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the most commonly recommended translators of Russian lit, although I didn't see much of a difference between them and garnett in Crime and Punishment
A lot of people have recommended Pevear and Volokhonsky so I'm thinking I might have to check that out! LOL, thank you!!
A word about Werther: remember that the author was in his Sturm und Drang period and latter became more "classical", so speaking. It is not to be seen through postmodern eyes. It became so popular that suicide turned almost a trend! When he met his author, Napoleon said "Behold a man".But the book that he valued above every one else is: Plutarch's Parallel Lives. He fancied himself as one of the heroic Roman leaders of the first times of the Roman republic. He was a fanatic of that time.
I love the idea of your project, and wish you the best of luck with it! LOL somehow I always forget that Napoleon and Goethe were contemporaries; we did very little about either of them in school, which now seems weird considering the fact that I live in Germany...I need to check out Werther this year, it's embarrassing how many German classics I haven't gotten around to yet. I have the Penguin edition of all of Michel de Montaigne's essays and enjoy dipping in and out of that from time to time. His ideas are fascinating and the translation is pretty readable as well. A historical fiction novel that I have on my TBR and which is set in/around the Napoleonic era is Now We Shall Be Entirely Free by Andrew Miller. The synopsis gives me some Poldark vibes (which I have only watched the first episode of, so better take this with a grain of salt :D), maybe that might be something you'd enjoy!
Oh, I do love Poldark! 😂 I’d like to read more German classics as well but I’m never quite sure where to start.
@@jenniferbrooks I can recommend Goethe's “Iphigenia in Tauris“, which is a fantastic play and a great take on the myth. Kafka is also quite good, but I've only read “The Trial“ so I can't really speak for more of his work. That book gave me an existential crisis back in school😂 but it is very good!
I absolutely love this idea! In the past I've tried to do some reading centered on Napoleon myself, but my list was much shorter. I did manage to read The Sorrows of Young Werther and War and Peace from your list. I read The History of the Peloponnesian War for another reason. I think it is Thucydides' only surviving work. It is really excellent. Another nonfiction title for you to look into (I don't know if this is in the public domain or if you can get an ebook copy) is Napoleon's Russian Campaign by Philippe-Paul de Ségur. It is also published under the title of Defeat. I read Napoleon's Russian Campaign before reading War and Peace, however the events of Napoleon's Russian Campaign occur in the second half of the novel. I read War and Peace by chipping away at it a little bit everyday. I'm not a good binge reader though, so take that with a grain of salt.
My translation of War and Peace was by a Matthew (somebody). Not sure, but not one of the most obvious. I really enjoyed it though. I think it is better if the French is not translated directly in the text but is translated in a note instead. Also, I definitely read other books while reading War and Peace because it took me several months to get through the book.
Thank you for this, Amanda! Your recommendations sound amazing.
Jennifer- red hot tip for War & Peace- i struggled with a CG translation (to be fair i didnt give it that long) till a blogger at 'Tolstoy Therapy' / Bibliotherapy recommended the Penguin Anthony Briggs translation- it was wonderful! seriously. + you get *really* useful character & family tree guides, great annotations & battle strategy maps (not usually my jam but it was great & really enhanced the read!) yep the 2016 series misses so much of the true essence (beautiful as it is though). Infact it was not a 'difficult read' just long.. (i skipped the political historical essays / treatises etc). Side note i knew there was i reason i subscribed lol: Few months back i declared i was gonna set myself a 'set in the Napoleonic Wars' theme (after w&p, VFair & others) hoping to get to JStrange this year & others. Though im not so interested in what N read.. i totally vibe with this era + vikings & many other of your fave subject matters! TR&TBlack also on my shelf/ tbr! Looking forward to your reviews on these : )
That is wild! Great minds think alike, lol. I hope we both enjoy our Napoleonic-themed reading. Thank you for the advice on War and Peace--I might have to get that edition.
@@jenniferbrooks Its apparently less 'wooden' in translation than the P&V one too (i thought Briggs' had alot of charm to boot). The CGarnett modern library i have is stunning! but.. not a single useful note / reading aid. : ) ps The Mists Of Avalon.. have you read? if not... oh god its good (love to hear a review). Viewing pleasure: The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell screen adaptation).. vikings Danes Saxons pagans christians all that good stuff 5 stars etc.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell was such a good Netflix series!! Napoleonic Wars made a cameo for a few episodes but largely not. Played a little fast and loose without period consistency, but haven't read book to compare. Tempus fugit!
War and Peace - best translation is by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky..take your time with it..its absolutely rewarding..it is as great as it is made to be..have fun
Thank you!! Seems like the Pevear is the one to go with.
Hello Jennifer. I've read War and Peace twice, first in the Constance Garnett trans then in the Pevear and Volokhonsky. I ended up preferring the Garnet. Like you say, Tolstoy puts a lot of French in there, I guess to show how frenchified the upper crust was. Garnet translates the french, P&V put the translation in footnotes which for me became tiresome quickly. Both translations seamed fine to me so this french issue gave the edge to Garnett.
I have one of those huge complete editions of Montaigne that I've been going in and out of for years. My advice would be to get one of those greatest hits collections. If you fall in love you can always go back and get a complete edition.
Vive la France! Vive l'Empereur!
Thank you for this!! Seems like there’s a lot to think about with translation. I think I’ll take your advice on Montaigne!
I guess I’m a lot like Napoleon…I might not let everybody know about it, but I’m watching book tube too! Haha.
Constance Garnett is the best translator for Dostoyevsky anyway. It’s entirely possible that Constance Garnett is good at translating one author and not another so War and Peace may have a better translation out there. Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are very, very different authors in my opinion. Dostoyevsky is the master of describing the spiritual struggle of a post-intellectual culture in political and social upheaval (and inevitable decline). It’s all very social and cultural: and most of the action occurs in tea rooms or at social gatherings where the protagonist, a tortured often post-Christian soul is contrasted with some general who is a fairly one-dimensional character symbolizing the socioeconomic status for status’ sake achieved through institutional bureaucracy…I never get the sense that these generals are worldly or have seen action, I assume they were paper-pushers. Anyway, Dostoyevsky examines the tension between trying to be an authentic individual yearning to save one’s soul, longing to find meaning, and the worldly gifts that come from conformity and complacency as evidenced by having the social status to attend the party, e.g. the general. I I can’t remember the War and Peace translation I read but it was an absolutely beautiful book, and while it had tension I found it much more hopeful and optimistic. “Lucky in cards, unlucky in love.” So much of it was similarly atmospheric and cultural: very little war, lots of social gatherings. Maybe Constance Garnett really “feels” Dostoyevsky and that’s why she translates him well.
This translation question is an interesting one generally. I’ve read several translations of the classics (Iliad, Odyssey, and the Aeneid) and like you I found Robert Feagles just very dull, as if Feagles was trying to be so faithful to the original language that he didn’t care whether the finished product had any flavor in English…I found myself reading several pages over and over because they were so boring or convoluted that I lost track of the action.
I really, really liked Stephen Mitchell’s translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey (not sure if he’s done the Aeneid, don’t think so) his translations were very powerfully written and just so vivid and gritty and…engaging. But I suspect in my heart of hearts that Mitchell took more liberties to solve some of the literalism problems that Feagles and Fitzgerald have. Still much prefer Mitchell. I am very interested in reading some of the new translations by female translators (there seem to be several out now). I read a review and excerpt of one in the New Yorker and it was just so interesting and unique and in the vein of modern poetic style…but again, probably some liberties taken which I for one am fine with (Homer’s tales were the cataloguing of stories from the oral tradition so the very goal of “accuracy” is somewhat conceptually flawed if Homer is considered the benchmark and I find some of the hard stances on accuracy to be the result of intellectual elitism rather than a desire that readers will engage and be inspired by the story, which to me is the whole point). These balancing of interests by translators really fascinates me though because ultimately, when I’m reading a translation of Dostoyevsky, I often completely forget that a game of linguistic “telephone” is happening. My college professors made us read Fitzgerald likely because of his accuracy, but it made the Iliad boring, meanwhile Stephen Mitchell’s translation read like it was written by George R. R. Martin, full of action, humor, and culture.
Just let me say that I am a long time viewer of you channel. I didn’t know what book tube was until I was looking for videos on the War of the Roses and your video came up. I have often wanted to comment but I am somewhat social media averse and…like T.S. Eliot’s Love Song for J. Alfred Prufrock, I often read what I write and delete because “that’s not what I meant at all.” Which is why I appreciate you so much because in addition to being intelligent, honest and entertaining to listen to, you are willing to put your thoughts and ideas out there. You say such interesting quirky things also. From this video: “all I do on this channel is butcher European languages and I’m VERY sorry for that,” haha there’s no need for you to apologize to Europeans…plenty of things they bungle and don’t apologize for…just take a walk in Manhattan for an hour and you’ll see what I mean (just kidding no offense Europeans). But the way you apologize is adorable in its sincerity because it’s your love for learning that makes you want yo get it right. And from another video: “of course, you all know vampires are my favorite mythical creature.” Haha, one of the most quirky and funniest statements I’ve ever heard and the best part was I did know that was your opinion…haha. I suspect your love of vampires comes from you intense appreciation for Interview with a Vampire? That’s the case with me. Did you enjoy the other books in that series? I couldn’t wait to read the second book, the Vampire Lestat, but it was a disappointing DNF for me. Haven’t picked another one up, partly because I have this slight OCD thing about reading a series in order. I rarely skip a book. Anyway, Lestat lacked all of the allegorical tension of how being a vampire involves similar moral navigation to being human…and frankly I just found it cheesy…I stopped reading when the narrative was trying to describe what seemed like an 80’s hair band concert…neither cool nor interesting to hear described. It was as if Interview was about struggling to be human, and Lestat had no tension at all: just a selfish vampire consumer doing his thing, which I don’t need fiction to observe because it already exists all around me. Fiction is meant to remind us of the struggle for our soul, not low cool it can get living on auto pilot and nor caring. Anyway, your comment was an interesting and fun statement on so many levels. Thanks for the intellectual stimulation and entertainment. You’re the best booktuber in my humble opinion.
You should read Josephine by Kate Williamson and Napoleon and the hundred days by Stephen Coote.
Thank you for the recommendations! I'll add them to the list!
Loved the video!!!!! I really want to read that Napoleon's biography. I'm currently reading Andrew Robert's biography on Churchill and I'm really enjoying it. 😄 War and Peace is one of my favorite books and I suggest you read it when you're really excited to pick it up, and I don't suggest you read it in bits, because you'll eventually feel the weight of the book and feel like it's never-ending. Tolstoy has a pretty fluid writing style, like in A. Karenina, but War and Peace is denser! Either way, I hope you love it!!!
I adore your channel, keep up with the great videos!! 😁
I'm sorry if I wasn't the clearest, English is not my native language! Greetings from Portugal 😊
Thank you! I think I will try reading War and Peace like you did because I would definitely feel how long it is otherwise!
Interesting
The Charterhouse of Parma is hilarious
What did you think of the movie that came out this year ?
Hello Jennifer I am from Chile and i really enjoy watching your videos and have bought many books that you have recommended. In reference to this video i thought you might like a series written by a well known author of yours Bernard Cornwell " The Sharpe series" which covers Napoleon's campaign in the iberian peninsula all the way to
Waterloo, maybe you will like Sharpe as much as you did Uhtred.There is also a tv adaptation to the Sharpe series.
In regards to the translations that interest you i can recommend "La Araucana" or in english "The Araucaniad" also referred to as the "Chilean Aeneid" by eyewitness poet and soldier Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga who is part of "El Siglo de oro" of spanish literature which includes Cervantes and Lope de Vega and others.Another book i can recommend and may introduce you to the history of my country is "Ines of my soul" by the renowned Chilean author Isabel Allende.
Thank you for the recommendations! The Araucaniad sounds great. I’ve been debating starting Sharpe and you’ve convinced me to give it a chance. Looking forward to seeing if I enjoy it!
@@jenniferbrooks Hello Jennifer thank you for your response I am glad that you liked my recommendations. I imagine you must be really busy ,hopefully you will have the time to read them. Regards Juan.
Yay War and Peace!! I ended up listening to it because the French wasn’t translated in the actual text for me and it was too jarring for me to get through in writing... I honestly forget who the translator was.
I’m debating trying an audiobook to go along with it so I can get through it a little quicker 😂
@@jenniferbrooks personally I’d recommend that!
Where did you buy all these books online ?
What about reading a biography of Beethoven seeing as Eroica was written for Napolean.
I cant make up my mind what to get the book said in this video nepolean the great or nepolean a life whats the diffrence?, I am 41 years old 42 next month and now im more into historical fiction mostly in 1899 or earlier more than I ever did when I was in hight school.
what made me fall in love with historical fiction was kate moss the burning chambers and the city of tears.
"He would forgo one meal a day in order to supplement his book buying" wowzers
Bicentenary of his death.
"You're French" 😂🇫🇷
Napoleon was an evil person as bad as Hitler. You really need to read PAST the Hero worship. History Matters. Read the Schom book. If you think he was a military genius then explain to me the bungles in Haiti in Egypt in Spain in Russia. I dare say you will be embarrassed when you find out how misplaced your admiration is for this mass murderer.
It's scary how you read one book and it's off to the races with your fan club. And yes...Dumas had Napoleon's number up front and suffered terribly in prison for it. Try to have a look at the people left in Napoleon's wake in villages all across Europe. He left a generation of dead people and his country defeated and broke at the end.
p.s. look into the pronunciation of the Elgin marbles. Easy to look up.