Snow White And The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders is all set to make a biopic on Napoleon Bonaparte
CS shares some trivia about the first emperor of France.
>>u00a0He penned a romance novel titled Clisson et Eugenie, which was a thinly veiled autobiography about his relationship with Desiree Clary.
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>>u00a0Often credited with originating the phrase, a picture is worth thousand words, what Napoleon actually said, as quoted in L’Arche de Noé, was: “A good sketch is better than a long speech.”
>>u00a0Napoleon wanted to be buried on the banks of the Seine but when his remains were returned to France in 1840, he was interred with other French military leaders in Les Invalides in Paris.
>>u00a0Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, and later, Josephine’s daughter, Hortense, married Napoleon’s brother Louis.
>>u00a0While on a campaign in Egypt, Napoleon learned that Joséphine was having an affair and wrote a distraught letter to his brother. The letter was intercepted by the British and published in newspapers, causing Napoleon great embarrassment.
>> Napoleon jailed 13 Catholic cardinals for not attending his second marriage. And Napoleon’s officers kidnapped Pope Pius VII and held him captive for five years. u00a0
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