Toulouse-Lautrec Ep 1: But, First... A Tale of French Lineage in Three Acts
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Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte
"I want to know the real Napoleon from a moment when we're all at our most emotionally exposed, right after a breakup," she says. "Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte is a thinly, thinly disguised autobiography about a young, brash, misunderstood military genius named Clisson." It's through select passages of this cheese ball, cringe-fest of a novel that we'll get to know what Napoleon thought of himself, love, country and duty.
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