LINKTV France 24 Mid-Day News December 11, 2013
He came back, once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here, just once more, before his final exile to distant st. Helena. The house was empty then. His former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was, had died. She had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. Here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. For in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictur...