STATEN ISLAND, NY — A new name quietly slipped into Island history this month. Louis Napoleon (1800-1881) was a black New Yorker who earned his living as an agent on the underground railroad and lived ...
It seemed Cape Girardeau's historical awareness of African American participation in the Civil War had 150-year amnesia. When local history-keepers were queried, a vague memory of only one Black Civil ...
Napoleon Bonaparte left a trail of death and destruction across Europe, yet in France his name remains synonymous with glory. More than a million people visit his tomb at Les Invalides each year.
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AT any other moment than the present it would be hardly endurable to read of the accumulated crimes of Louis Napoleon ; but now, when by the blessing of Heaven he has worked out his own ruin, we may ...
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On Sunday, October 19, four masked thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris and escaped with jewelry valued at an ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Anne-Sylvaine Chassany writes with great insight about France, but I think it does not tell the whole ...
ON the 6th of October, 1840, a young man was brought up for sentence in one of the highest courts of Europe, before which he had been tried, and by which he had been found guilty of one of the ...
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