by cameron | Feb 24, 2009 | General
While in Paris last July, after the Ajaccio INS Congress, I had the pleasure of meeting one of our listeners face-to-face – Nicholas Stark, an 18-year old Napoleon student who lives in Philadelphia. In his own words, Nicholas is “devout young historian,...
by cameron | Feb 17, 2009 | General
Many thanks to Ryan Crombie who discovered an online version of Stanley Kubrick’s 1969 Napoleon screenplay! As we discussed on the show, the film was unfortunately never produced, in part because Sergei Bondarchuk’s film WATERLOO (1970) was a commercial...
by cameron | Feb 13, 2009 | General
I found a link to this essay by Emerson on Tim Ferriss’ blog (the 4 Hour Work Week guy). It’s a really great essay. Here’s the final paragraph as a teaser: It was not Bonaparte’s fault. He did all that in him lay to live and thrive without...
by cameron | Feb 4, 2009 | General
If you visit the Napoleon 101 homepage, on the right-hand sidebar you’ll see options to add Cameron to Twitter and Facebook and also a Members section! You can use your Google ID to login and see other members. I’m not that any of these things actually add...
by cameron | Dec 8, 2008 | General
David and I have done another episode of The Biography Show! This one is on Charlemagne. Get it here!
by cameron | Nov 13, 2008 | General
Victor Sheely again comes up with the goods – he sent me this link to a handful of Napoleon’s chess games. I just played through this game between Napoleon and Bertrand on St Helena in 1820 and it’s a SHOCKER. I’d always heard that Napoleon...
