Posted on 08/07/2013 8:01:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Unlike any leader before him, Napoleon Bonaparte engineered his rise to power, almost out of nowhere, not only through military prowess — but also through his mastery of propaganda to stir the public.
"What strikes one almost immediately is the depth to which Bonaparte understood the art of propaganda and the degree to which he was personally involved in its creation," wrote historian Wayne Hanley in "The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799."
That's what led to Napoleon — almost a foreigner — to reach the heights of power and secure a legend for himself that lives to this day.
In France, disillusion and distrust followed the horrors of the Reign of Terror and the Directory government after 1794, wrote Will and Ariel Durant in "The Age of Napoleon."
That made possible the rise of the ambitious Corsican general who offered not the bloodshed and primitive justice of the street mobs, nor the self-righteous justification of the royalists and moderates.
What Napoleon proposed was a new kind of glory separated from the factionalism of the past decade, with the promise of a bright future, a solid nation and better times....
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This is a bunch of bullcrap...Julius Caesar did it some 1,850 years before Napoleon.
Telling and Amusing Headline Progression
January 29th, 2010 Posted in History . Humor . Politics . Uncategorized
The following is a list of Paris newspaper headlines reporting the journey of Napoleon across France, on his return from exile on Elba, March 9 to March 22, 1815:
March 9
THE ANTHROPOPHAGUS HAS QUITTED HIS DEN
March 10
THE CORSICAN OGRE HAS LANDED AT CAPE JUAN
March 11
THE TIGER HAS ARRIVED AT CAP
March 12
THE MONSTER SLEPT AT GRENOBLE
March 13
THE TYRANT HAS PASSED THOUGH LYONS
March 14
THE USURPER IS DIRECTING HIS STEPS TOWARDS DIJON
March 18
BONAPARTE IS ONLY SIXTY LEAGUES FROM THE CAPITAL
He has been fortunate enough to escape his pursuers
March 19
BONAPARTE IS ADVANCING WITH RAPID STEPS, BUT HE WILL NEVER ENTER PARIS
March 20
NAPOLEON WILL, TOMORROW, BE UNDER OUR RAMPARTS
March 21
THE EMPEROR IS AT FONTAINEBLEAU
March 22
HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL MAJESTY arrived yesterday evening at the Tuileries, amid the joyful acclamation of his devoted and faithful subjects
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