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...chateau that was once the residence of the Bourbon kings is now one of France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts of the great men of France's past were broken. Seriously harmed were six paintings of Napoleon, including...
Presumably, the Bretons singled out the treasures of the Napoleonic era because of the Emperor's untrammeled imperialist ambitions. The Breton nationalists have attempted to stir up support for their cause among other regional independence movements in France, including those in Alsace, Réunion, Guadeloupe and Corsica. But last week's bombing of Versailles was bound to backfire on Corsica: there the island's most celebrated native son, Napoleon Bonaparte, is still a national hero...
Over the the years, Bösendorfer has custom-built magnificent pianos for the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, and for the czar of Russia. Bösendorfers have been owned by such masters as Anton Rubinstein, Gustav Mahler, Ignace Paderewski and more recently by Béla Bartok and Frank Sinatra. After World War II, however, production fell from its peak in 1913 to around 100 pianos a year. For one thing, the factory, once a monastery, needed modernizing. For another, hauteur some times precluded sales; one director was said to have dismissed a customer...
MacArthur: The Napoleon of Luzon...
...went to see lim because in my military survey of Southeast Asia had been so disappointed by the U.S. Army in the Philippines-commanded by dull men who had contempt for the "aging" and retired one-time Chief of Staff of their army, Douglas MacArthur. They called him "the Napoleon of Luzon," and one spokesman told me that he "cut no more ice in this U.S. Army than a corporal." MacArthur was just an adviser to the Philippine Army, he said, not worth seeing. So I went to see this relict of history, this great soldier, now a field marshal...