LINKTV France 24 Mid-Day News March 12, 2014
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 pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. For everywhere, artists were t...