Napoleon's New Rep
Who would have thought it, one day, I would come to see Napoleon and his legacy with disdain! It feels as though it was only yesterday I was sitting in class in my 3rd year of university listening to a lecture on the french revolution - on how it created the modern age of nation-states and opened the era of democracy - and feeling a certain pride swell inside me. Did I not take heed of that first sign? Pride for what!? As if I had had a hand in the revolution myself… But that