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Looking back on it, Napoleon remembered the Egyptian campaign as "the most beautiful time in my life." He pictured himself, he wrote, "founding a religion, marching into Asia, riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. I was full of dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sketches in Bullets | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...French fleet of 400 sails that left Toulon on May 19, 1798, managed to evade a British squadron under Admiral Nelson in the fog and sailed on to Alexandria undisturbed. With an advance guard of only 5,000 men (out of a total force of 50,000, including sailors), Napoleon landed through the surf on a remote beach and advanced on Alexandria by night with neither cavalry nor artillery. Taking the garrison by surprise, he captured the city with only an estimated 200 casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sketches in Bullets | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Napoleon, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1963 | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...hero say to Napoleon, when the Emperor names him King of Westphalia: "Gee, is my wife gonna be happy when she hears this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In a Plaster-of-Paris Paris | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...lived surrounded by rich inlay, intricately carved paneling, rare porcelains, precious furniture. He could point to a table and say. "That belonged to Marie Antoinette." A magnificent desk with inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare gold boxes that were once used for snuff or jewelry, of which the best examples could today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Versailles in Manhattan | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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