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ELEANOR P. DELORME. Long after French military and economic influence began to decline, France is still a center of European art and style. Among those who helped to burnish France’s cultural credentials was Josephine de Beauhamais, best known as wife to Napoleon. While her husband relied on her for emotional support, his empire relied on her for her impeccable taste in art. Eleanor P. Delorme will present her new biography, Josephine: Napoleon’s Incomparable Empress, in a lecture hosted by the Harvard Bookstore at the Sackler Museum at 6 p.m. on Apr. 10. Complimentary tickets...
...Adam and his friends were guerrillas - though the word wasn't commonly used until some 40 years later, when Spanish peasants harried Napoleon's army in the Peninsular War. Indeed, the Columbia Encyclopedia notes that guerrilla tactics have been called "the great contribution of the American Revolution to the development of warfare." In this early part of the conflict in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that...
...rare sea snail or the red cochineal beetle that feeds off cactus. She traces why red ocher is sacred among Australian Aborigines, then jumps over to Renaissance Italy to muse on the unique blood-orange varnish that Stradivarius used to anoint his violins. Along the way, we learn that NapolEon could have died of arsenic poisoning from green wallpaper then in vogue. We are also taught that bureaucratic red tape comes from ribbons dipped in a safflower-red dye that were used to tie bundles of legal documents in England, and that 19th-century painters favored an autumnal brown made...
...discoveries pertaining to Napoleon's life are stoking further interest. Scientists are currently analyzing nearly 2,000 skeletons recently unearthed near Vilnius, Lithuania - the remains of some of the 440,000 Imperial soldiers who perished while fleeing Russia following Napoleon's catastrophic 1812 campaign. And French Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon is considering a request to allow genetic testing on the remains in Napoleon's Parisian tomb. The exam would end decades of speculation that the British returned the corpse of Bonaparte's valet rather than the man himself to France in 1840. French scientists have already cleared the British...
...current wash of movies, stage productions and books doesn't seem to be trivializing Napoleonic history. Museums and monuments devoted to the French general report a 20-35% increase in visitors amid the renewed hype. Being the center of attention 181 years after his death would certainly please Napoleon...