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Dan Snow – Under the Weather

in English msg Réactions on 02/09/2022 09/09/2022 by John Tarttelin

Snow entitles his March 14th 2015 article for the Daily Telegraph : « The French should end their love affair with Napoleon – he was an utterly brutal and callous dictator. » Snow writes as if he’s…

William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 3

in English msg on 02/05/2021 02/05/2021 by John Tarttelin

The writer Edward Sterling aka Vetus attacked Napoleon vociferously in The Times. Vetus wanted the Allies to fight on, depose Napoleon and restore the Bourbons to the French throne. (103) Hazlitt favoured a dialogue with…

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William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 2

in English msg on 14/03/2021 14/03/2021 by John Tarttelin

On April 10th, 1798, his twentieth birthday, William set off on a roundabout jaunt of nearly two hundred miles to met his soulmate Coleridge in the Vale of Llangollen. When he arrived on May 20th…

William Hazlitt and Napoleon – 1

in English msg on 02/03/2021 02/03/2021 by John Tarttelin

To him, Napoleon’s defeat represented « the utter extinction of human liberty from the earth. » (1) It is very difficult for the British people to discern their true history and what really happened in the past…