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The colorful graffiti sprinkled across this mountain town offers one clue about some political sentiments here. "Liberty for Stephanu Ori," is plastered on one peeling wall, referring to a Corsican militant arrested last month. Another pays tribute to nationalist Yvan Colonna, killed in jail where he was serving time for the assassination of a top…

Man of Destiny

In which Alice Payne enjoys a whistlestop journey through this beguiling French island... Early this morning, I was flying through the sky on a tranquil flight to Corsica. Just a few hours later, I am unpleasantly surprised to find myself flying through the sky again – this time on a speedboat. As we hurtle across the ocean, with the boat launching itself off huge cresting waves before hovering in mid-air and plunging at alarming angles into the next rising summit of water, I start to regret having put the remote Lotu beach on our itinerary. "I…don't…think…this…is…SAFE!&q...

Charles-André Pozzo di Borgo was a sworn enemy of the French emperor and played a significant role in his fall. During his feud with Napoleon, he even went into the service of Alexander I.