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Back with his Princess to the scene of the Battle of Waterloo came Prince Napoleon, 39, great-grandnephew of the Little Corporal, to visit Bonaparte's old farmhouse headquarters. They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years...
...visit to Manhattan, Max Blouet, manager of Paris' George V Hotel, brought "a gift nobody could buy" for former Guest Dwight Eisenhower. The present: a bottle of 1800 cognac from the private cellar of Napoleon...
...snappy story of boudoir doings in the First Empire, with a lusty cannon counterpoint to the mattress melody. In Desiree, however, Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko has accepted the rational notion that historical novels must have some relation to historical fact. The historical facts in the case are these: that Napoleon (he later Gallicized his Corsican name) as a very young man was actually engaged to Desiree Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, that he broke the engagement to marry Josephine, and that Desiree later married one of Napoleon's marshals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, and became a queen...
Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
...After Napoleon's death, Marie Louise married the general...