Cádiz, the free bastion of Spain that resisted foreign conquests with the blow of the bayonet
Except for the obvious differences and the more comical side, the history of the people of Cádiz has reminded us, on occasions, of the famous … Read more
Napoleon
Paris, Ajaccio, Fontainebleau, Waterloo … exhibitions in order of battle
The bicentenary of the death of the emperor celebrated this year is widely relayed by institutions. Overview. • Grande Halle de la Villette Prepared in … Read more
Netflix and “Napoleon”, the fiancés of the Empire
This post comes from the daily newsletter of the Culture department of Release, sent free of charge every evening. Breaking news : “Paris, January 14, 2021 … Read more
The key to the prison where Napoleon died at auction
The British auction house Sotheby’s said on Monday that it was putting up for sale on its website the key to the room where Napoleon … Read more
The unexpected biological allies of the Napoleonic troops
Pedro Choker Updated:10/23/2020 21: 22h save At the beginning of the year 1809, the French dominance in continental Europe was more than unquestionable, however, in … Read more
For its bicentenary, Greece celebrates the French “Philhellènes”
INVESTIGATION – From Victor Hugo to Eugène Delacroix, from Mme de Staël to Hector Berlioz, many French artists mobilized alongside Greece when it rose up … Read more
The 5 hours of hell of the forgotten Spanish hero who became England’s nightmare
Manuel P. VillatoroFOLLOW Updated:22/09/2020 08:24h save Related news Felipe Antonio Jado de CagigalCantabrian by birth, he was not exactly a middle-aged young man when he beat … Read more
August 21, 1911: the Mona Lisa disappeared!
This weekend of August 22 being particularly empty, let’s go back one day. This day which, without extrapolating, brought the Mona Lisa out of the … Read more
The advice that Napoleon despised about the “madness” of conquering Spain: “He believed himself invincible and fell”
Said by his own generals a few years after being humiliated in the War of Independence of 1808, the audacity of trying to conquer Spain … Read more
Roa Bastos, Jules César, Ravalec… The selection of books from “Libé”
Me, the supreme, d’Augusto Roa Bastos. Translated from Spanish (Paraguay) by Antoine Berman. Ypsilon, 519 pp., 25 €. Roa Bastos’ masterpiece, published in 1974, republished … Read more