At Malmaison, Napoleon's best-known residence, now a museum of the Napoleonic era, a recently acquired painting of the young Bonaparte at Brienne has been hung.
What a familiar opening. A lone figure among mocking enemies, rejected by all and accepted by none. What happens next in such stories, we all know.
But who is to blame remains to be established
In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
