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Article: A&E's `Napoleon' a true TV epic.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2003
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Byline: Michael Kilian
NEW YORK _ Those of us who love France no matter what will rejoice that the A&E cable network has sufficient sangfroid to take on churlish Francophobic chowder heads on Capitol Hill and elsewhere by devoting several hours of American television time to the greatest Frenchman there ever was.
That fellow, of course, was Napoleon Bonaparte, the military genius/ruthless dictator/enlightened reformer who brought order out of the chaos of the French Revolution and went on to subdue all Europe_for a while.
He also gave us the word "pumpernickel," which is a corruption of "Pain pour Nicole," meaning a very dark rye German bread ...
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