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Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
...Greenwich, England, somebody swiped the seven-inch, diamond-studded headdress presented to Admiral Lord Nelson in 1798 by Sultan Selim III of Turkey to commemorate Britain's victory over Napoleon in the battle of the Nile...
That was England in 1814, after Napoleon had been packed off to Elba, but England only in her most sensational aspect. After two decades of war, she was still the richest nation in the world and in many ways the most attractive. Yet she was changing fast. Between industrialism and the effects of the Napoleonic wars, England would never be the same again...
...Caroline, was also indiscreet. Soon, and quite openly, she was to take an Italian lover and stand a parliamentary trial for her conduct. London's streets were full of soldiers being demobbed, and the most popular man in England was Alexander I, Czar of Russia, who had conquered Napoleon (with some help from the Russian winter...
Bryant tries neither to teach nor to hector, but his book is full of parallels with the history being made today. The Czar's soldiers had smashed Napoleon's Grande Armee, but had become the terror of the people they liberated. "Better the French as enemies," German peasants were beginning to say, "than the Russians as friends." The fears of Europe were much the same as the world's today: "What if. having occupied Finland, Bessarabia and Poland, the northern colossus should now strike southwards across the central Asian deserts to the Indian Ocean?" And when British...