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Views: Visits 13 By Obadiah Mailafia He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies;including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769—1821). On Wednesday 5 May, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bicentenary of his lonely death on the island of St. Helena on 5 May 1821.   Napoleon remains a figur...

Share He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies; including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769-1821). On Wednesday, May 5, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bicentenary of his lonely death on the island of St. Helena on 5 May 1821.  Napoleon remains a figure of controversy. For some, he was a military hero and g...

Vanguard News Napoleon Bonaparte and the Black Jacobins On By Obadiah Mailafia He was a force of nature. He subdued kingdoms and shook down ancient monarchies;including the Holy Roman Empire that was neither fully Roman nor actually holy. He was the lawgiver and founder of the institutional foundations of the modern European state. That force of nature is none other than the enigmatic Napoleon Bonaparte of France (1769—1821). On Wednesday 5 May, President Emmanuel Macron and the French nation celebrated the bicentenary of his lonely death on the island of St. Helena on 5 May 1821.   Napo...

As the world marks the bicentenary of Napoléon Bonaparte’s death on May 5, FRANCE 24 looks at the Egyptian campaign he launched in 1798. It was a military disaster for France – but also a political s…

Laura O’Brien assesses recent work on his life and legacy.  Two hundred years after his death, what more is there to say about Napoleon Bonaparte? He remains a perennially popular subject for works of history aimed at the general reader, whether conventional biographies or more specialised studies on aspects of his life, regime and cultural legacy. If, as the Napoleonic historian Philip Dwyer suggests, writing a biography is like holding up a mirror for a contemporary readership, who is the Napoleon that is reflected back at us in 2021? The work of Napoleonic biographers has been made some...