the french hitler; It's an astonishing reversal of history - the man who created modern France is now being denounced by his own people as a sadistic racist whose genocidal mania (and incompetence) caused the death of millions. From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: December 10, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: ANDREW ROBERTS

The French Press is full of revisionist reports that Napoleon was a flawed military strategist, a monster, a genocidal racist - and a national embarrassment.

And a recent poll published by Le Figaro found nearly 40 per cent of Frenchmen thought Napoleon to be 'a dictator who had used all means to satisfy his thirst for power'.

As a result of this reassessment, no money was made available for his bicentenary to be commemorated, even though France spent lavishly in 1989 on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, when the blood of ...

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