Napoleon Bonaparte: Romance writer
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:35 pm
I don't know how we all missed this news story a week ago, since it sounds like one of those tidbits a SyndieBAM question writer would love.
It turns out that Napoleon wrote a love story back in 1795, the first page of which was auctioned for $35,400 last Sunday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hbsB ... QD8T9DGP80
It turns out that Napoleon wrote a love story back in 1795, the first page of which was auctioned for $35,400 last Sunday.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hbsB ... QD8T9DGP80
Ah, yes, many a promising author has had his career sidetracked by "political matters"."Clisson and Eugenie," only 22 pages in its original handwritten form, was written when Napoleon was a 26-year-old general. Afterward, Napoleon turned his attention to political matters.