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...ride into Moscow with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny, De Gaulle followed the old Kaluga Road (now Lenin Avenue) down which Napoleon retreated under Czarist cannonfire in 1812. Last week the route was lined by 800,000 Muscovites waving paper tricolors and shouting "Druzhba!" (friendship). The Napoleonic parallel was completed when De Gaulle was escorted to a spacious apartment within the Kremlin walls, the first Western leader ever so honored and the first Frenchman to sleep there since Bonaparte...
Even the U.S.'s most sacrosanct heroes have a relation to American life that is not quite equivalent to other nations' heroes. Britain's Wellington, France's Napoleon, Russia's Peter the Great are national heroes, who specifically did something for the greater glory of the nation and can be claimed by no other country. But the U.S.'s Washington and Lincoln, Wilson and Kennedy are celebrated for the ideals they championed. They reaffirm the American idea of itself as a nation dedicated not to power but to ideals. In that sense...
...North Vietnamese regulars that Giap has sent down the Ho Chi Minh trail in the past year. Regional distrust and dislike between northerners and southerners in Viet Nam is centuries old, and, says one expert in Saigon, "the southern Viet Cong have long been afraid of a Red Napoleon." They now have one: half the main-force Viet Cong units not tied down to static defense are led by North Viet Nam officers, and there have been major seedings of Viet Cong into North Vietnamese regiments, most of which arrive under strength owing to disease, casualties and desertion from...
...Snuggling. It took the upstart Napoleon to bring it back to its former glory. In 1805, he had the palace redecorated in Empire style for himself and Josephine. The day of his divorce from her, Napoleon returned to the Trianon, spent the night there alone. His remorse was short lived: he was soon back with his new Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that...
...style furniture (only De Gaulle's eight-room suite has been done in Louis XVI); provincial and national museums were searched for the original paintings. To weave the 24 Aubusson rugs, carefully kept facsimiles of the original patterns were used; Lyon silk-makers simply followed swatches saved from Napoleon's purchases to reproduce the curtains and upholstery. To bring the Trianon up to date, air conditioning, 350 telephones, 27 bathrooms have been added, along with TV outlets in every room...