L&T Archive 1998-2003

You don't see Napoleon like this, then? ;-)
In Response To: Bigger than life ()

"Crying for a New Toy", a Jan. 25th 1803 caricature attributed to Isaac Cruikshank (text in image given at the bottom of this message):

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/1803npcj.jpg


Nurse -- "Well Child, you shall have it, but I don't think you'll be a bit better for it, nor quieter when you've got it."

Nappy -- "I will have it, I will, or else I'll cry -- give me the Crown!"

(Torn picture of "the world" and broken crowns and scepters litter the floor.)

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So, what's the attraction with Napoleonics?
Must be the uniforms! nfm
And the music - you can't go wrong with the Marseillaise (nfm)
Lots of heroes (nfm)
LOL!
Being Killed at the height of your career is great for posterity....
Complicated
Very!
Interpretations
Analysis
I live with one.
so, what exactly, is the attraction, here ?
I think....
Tell him.....;-)
Can't help myself
Winning and losing
Ah , this sounds sooooo familiar!nfm.
Bigger than life
You don't see Napoleon like this, then? ;-)
"How far is St. Helena from a little child at play" (nfm)
Napoleonic Attraction
WW1
Because
Re-enacting the nasty bits
re: the Attraction with Emperor Bonaparte