On the Screen: Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’ doesn’t bring us much closer to the man behind the facade
DAVID ADAMS watches the new Ridley Scott epic, ‘Napoleon’…
In France’s overseas territories, Napoleon’s legacy has a more troublesome side
Reunion Island, FranceReuters When France commemorates the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death on 5th May, Aurelie Ramassamy will remember a tyrant who reversed the abolition of slavery rather than an emperor often lionised as a hero for his battlefield triumphs. Like most Creoles on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, one of France’s overseas departments, Ramassamy is […]