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...doesn't even hit the high spots." This kind of historical analysis, however, is not limited to the strictly historical section alone. In a subsection of the chapter on communications, for instance, the author attributes the fall of the First French Empire to a lack of rapid communication between Napoleon and his lieutenants...
...Explosion. Debre could have appealed to history. When Napoleon's armies swept over the Continent 160 years ago, France contained one-fifth of Europe's population. Today it represents one-twentieth, and only immigration has kept France from losing population. Since 1946, France's annual birth rate has stabilized at between 18 and 19 per 1,000 people. Though wel below the U.S. rate of 23.4, France is now actually doing better than most of its neighbors...
Free again, De Sade gave up public life in disgust and returned to his private orgies. Accused of writing an obscene pamphlet ridiculing Napoleon and Josephine, he was incarcerated for the last time-in an insane asylum. There he amused the inmates by staging his plays, which had flopped outside the asylum but were a big hit within. "This man is not insane," De Sade's last doctor declared, "he is just mad about vice." Despite that madness, De Sade's writing showed an early insight into the makeup of man. Before Freud, De Sade saw that cruelty...
...Schloss Auel, 16 miles outside Bonn, was built at least six centuries ago, remodeled 400 years later. Napoleon slept there; his canopy bed, lengthened to accommodate the man-sized Emperor Alexander I of Russia during his stay, is still there. More recent guests include former West German President Theodor Heuss, Henry Ford II, and Margaret Truman. The hotel was recently expanded to 40 rooms, each furnished differently. Prices range from $7.50 for a double to $11.25 for a suite...
Historical novelists who use lowly characters to eyewitness the past customarily keep them close to the great captains-as, say, a cabin boy on the Santa Maria or a drummer dragged along in the wake of Napoleon's march to Moscow. But the wispy, aging English heiress who calls herself Bryher and now lives permanently in Switzerland writes historical fiction in her own strange way. Her latest book covers some 40 years of the Punic wars. Characteristically, her two major characters never take part in, or talk about, any of the major battles. They are not attached to either...