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Article: HOW THEY LORDED IT IN PARIS - CAPITAL OF PURE PLEASURE. (book review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2001
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Byline: PATRICK MARNHAM
PARIS BETWEEN EMPIRES 1814-1852 by Philip Mansel (John Murray, [pound]25)
WHEN the Duke of Wellington passed through Paris in May 1814 after the fall of Napoleon, he was cheered at the Opera.
Returning three months later as British Ambassador, he was so hated that for his own protection he had to be withdrawn.
The Parisians had already forgotten their joy at the overthrow of the Corsican tyrant who had killed 900,000 French soldiers and whose last order had been that Paris should burn.
One year later, when Napoleon returned to meet his Waterloo, he was welcomed with rapture and accepted as Emperor on ...
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