Reformer or tyrant? Napoléon commemorations put legacy under scrutiny

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3 年前

France has a president who is big on remembrance. Emmanuel Macron has put historians to work on Algeria and Rwanda as well as calling for conversations on colonialism and slavery. Now, exactly a year before the presidential election, Macron is going all in on Napoléon, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the emperor's tomb at Paris's Les Invalides armoury.