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Three kisses from Napoleon worth £276,000

From the BBC this morning: A love letter from Napoleon to his future wife, Josephine, has fetched some £276,000 ($556,000; 409,000 euros) at an auction in London. In the letter – one of only three known to have been sent to Josephine by the French emperor...

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Your reviews on iTunes. Your emails. Contest entries. Posts on our blog. We ask for so little. I know what you’re thinking: What else can I do to help support my friends at the Napoleon 101 Podcast? This year for the first time ever we’re going to go for an...
#24 – The Invasion Of Russia (Part I)

#24 – The Invasion Of Russia (Part I)

On June 24, 1812, the Grande Armée of approximately 600,000 men, the largest army assembled up to that point in European history, crossed the river Neman and headed towards Moscow. In this episode, we focus on the first few months, and follow Napoleon as he captures...
#23 – The Road To Moscow

#23 – The Road To Moscow

In this episode we explore the political events that resulted in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, the tragedy that formed the central events of Tolstoy’s War and Peace and which saw Napoleon raise the largest army in history up until that time,...