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In Thomas B. Costain's historical novel The Last Love (1963), a dying Napoleon, banished to St. Helena, tells his story to his lone companion, a girl who acts as his English translator. Napoleon is an important character in Leo Tolstoy 's War and Peace , where considerable space is devoted to Tolstoy's interpretation of his historical role.
Napoleon was excommunicated by the pope through the bull Quum memoranda in 1809. [346] His will in 1821 stated, "I die in the Apostolical Roman religion, in the bosom of which I was born, more than fifty years since." [347] Napoleon read the Koran in translation and had an interest in Islam and the Orient. [348]
Napoleon Accepting the Surrender of Madrid (French: Capitulation de Madrid, le 4 décembre 1808) is an 1810 history painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts Napoleon , Emperor of France , accepting the surrender of Madrid , on 4 December 1808, during the Peninsular War .
Napoleon would have been correct in seeing the United Kingdom as essentially a commercial and naval rather than a land-based power, but during his lifetime it was fast being transformed from a mercantile to an industrial nation, a process which laid the basis for a century of British hegemony after the Battle of Waterloo.
Alain Peyrefitte's The Immobile Empire, a study of British delegations to China in the late 18th century based on extensive research in French and English language sources, gives a detailed account of Amherst's conversations with Napoleon with no mention of such a quote. He attributes this "famous prediction" to Napoleon but not as part of the ...
Sarah Bernhardt in the title role (1900) Minnie Tittell Brune in an Australian performance (1905) L'Aiglon is a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II, who was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and his second wife, Empress Marie Louise. The title of the play comes from a nickname for Napoleon II, the French word for "eaglet" (a young eagle). The title role was created ...
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (also known as Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass or Bonaparte Crossing the Alps; listed as Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard) is a series of five oil on canvas equestrian portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte painted by the French artist Jacques-Louis David between 1801 and 1805.
Although Napoleon won the battle, the Russians were able to retreat in good order and the eagle was not recovered, much to the emperor's regret. [4] In 1807, at Heilsberg, the 55th Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne was overthrown by Prussian cavalry and Russian infantry. An eagle was lost and several officers, including a colonel, were killed.