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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...

A French Cemetery Last Sunday felt more like mid-February than mid-April. It was more cold than cool; the sky was heavy and gray. We are in confinement in France. No travel more than 10 km from home, a 7 PM curfew, no service at any restaurants, and virtually no entertainment. I didn’t want to, but I felt obliged to take my afternoon walk. I have passed the little cemetery in my town, Meudon, many times. On this day I entered and explored. This is what I found. Madagascar Just around the corner turning right at the entrance is a plaque for locals who had died in Madagascar in 1895. The plaq...

15 march 2021 Yesterday The opinion that the USSR was actively involved in the smuggling of industrial diamonds after World War II is quite widespread in the literature of the subject. For example, “Industrial diamonds were spirited from Zaire and Sierra-Leone to Beirut, thence by diplomatic pouch to Moscow” 1. Or there were reports that old traders in Beirut - where many illicit dealers in Africa shipped rough diamonds to - recalled that there were often industrial diamonds in the diplomatic pouches sent to Moscow by the Soviet embassy in Beirut. 2 Such information is in almost all can...

Jacqueline Munro-Lafon: An appreciation JACQUELINE Munro-Lafon was the doyenne of the French community in Scotland, an iconic and much-loved figure. On February 13 she died peacefully in Glasgow, in the presence of her son and daughter-in-law, a fortnight after her hundredth birthday. Jacqueline Lafon was born in 1921, in Paris like four generations of her family before. Her father was a wine merchant, and the family lived in the Latin Quarter, that alluring fusion of bourgeois elegance, intellectual enquiry, and student buzz. After leaving school, she undertook a journalism degree, her...