Napoleon - Trench Fever
Napoleon Bonaparte—A Possible Case of Trench Fever
Eric Faure
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Volume 31, Number 5—May 2025
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Napoleon
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Josephine's "Zig Zag"?
Napoleon’s Wife Performed a Mystery Sex Act That Still Baffles Historians
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/napoleon-josephine-zig-zag-sex-act/87684100/
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Napoleon and the Cook with No Name
Napoleon and the Cook with No Name
Marcelo Coutts and Stuart Godwin
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Nobody has ever killed anybody else while eating a mouthful of cake.Can food really change the course of world history? The cook with no name certainly thinks so. It's a crazy thought, but no crazier than anything else he's been through, so why not?Set in Europe in the throes of the Napoleonic Wars, our story is full of eccentric characters, great generals, men of insatiable ambition, high society doyennes, murderous rogues and swashbucklers.Along the way we smuggle rum with pirates in the balmy Caribbean, explore the underworld of a Paris on the brink of imploding under the weight of its own expectations, fall in love and taste exotic recipes, including the preparation and cooking of the fearsome vampire fish.Napoleon and the Cook with no Name is a zesty retelling of pre- and post-French-revolutionary history with a culinary flavour,…
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David Hollins
Mar 12, 2025
I recently came across something I wrote in 2005 about the likelihood of 'Sharpe's Cookbook'. With the Apple series almost upon us, (see Quelle horreur), it looks like my prediction is coming true.
Misquoting Napoleon
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David Hollins
Feb 17, 2025
From snopes.com: While it is not clear whether Napoleon actually said the quote, or in what context, Balzac did spend years researching the former emperor's life through books, letters and exchanges with those who knew him. His sources included Napoleon's niece Letizia Bonaparte, with whom he corresponded extensively. But Balzac was an admirer of the emperor and contributed to developing the myth around the man.
Honore Balzac appears to be like Gachot - there is a basis in fact, but also quite a lot of invention. Problem is, we cannot know which it is.
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The Zigzag remembers the approaching of a besieged fortress: The sappers go never directly on the "capitale" of the bastion onto which they are digging, rather always in Zigzags (to avoid enfilading fire in their trench). I guess Napoleon, who was very profound in the art of fortress warfare, had this technology in mind ;-)