Napoleon ostentatiously touches a plague victim in this detail of a painting copied from Antoine-Jean Gros. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) Think President Trump is great at spinning plague propaganda?

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French general and emperor who has been studied by historians and academics for centuries. Despite ...

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In his 2014 biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, the historian Andrew Roberts calls the French emperor’s coronation the “ultimate triumph of the self-made man, and in one way a defining moment of the ...

Think President Trump is great at spinning plague propaganda? Try Napoleon Bonaparte instead. That’s a guy who had it down. Trump has the inarguable skills of a game-show host. That ratings-approved ...