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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...

Jacek Turczyk/PAP With the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s death in early May, what effect did the French Emperor have on Poland? Following the partitions of Poland in the late 18th century, Poles saw Napoleon as a possible saviour of the Polish nation. In 1807 Napoleon created the Duchy of Warsaw, a client state of France, and gave it a modern constitution, while a year later the Napoleonic Code also was instated. Host John Beauchamp speaks to Marta Tomczak, PhD candidate from Warsaw University, about Napoleon’s lasting legacy in Poland. In this we...

Let’s be honest – every national hero is tainted by the values of our time Kenan Malik © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Reuters With distance can come greater perspective. We often better appreciate a physical object, whether a mountain or a monument and its relationship to its surroundings, at some distance than from close up. The same is true of historical figures. Last week marked the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, a man who divides opinion in France. President Emmanuel Macron, in laying a wreath at Napoleon’s tomb in Les Invalides in P...

We have to adopt a less black-and-white approach to Napoleon, Churchill and their ilk ‘An act of commemoration, not of celebration’: President Macron and his wife, Brigitte, at Napoleon’s tomb in Paris. Photograph: Reuters ‘An act of commemoration, not of celebration’: President Macron and his wife, Brigitte, at Napoleon’s tomb in Paris. Photograph: Reuters Sun 9 May 2021 04.30 EDT With distance can come greater perspective. We often better appreciate a physical object, whether a mountain or a monument and its relationship to its surroundings, at some distance ...

by Ruth Scurr (Chatto £30, 400 pp) In 1814, a few days after Napoleon abdicated as Emperor of France, the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon stopped his coach to offer a lift to a battle-weary French grenadier. ‘If Bonaparte had reigned longer,’ the young soldier told him, ‘he would have murdered all the world, then made war on the animals.’ Some 200 years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte is still a magnetic and polarising figure — as the controversy surrounding French president Emmanuel Macron’s pilgrimage to his tomb this week illustrates all too vividly. Historian Ruth S...