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?

France has a lot of historic sites associated with Napoleon Bonaparte (as do other parts of the world), but a single myth has persisted throughout history about the former French emperor: He was short ...

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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 ...