Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 9 a.m.

From Napoleon impersonators, caricature and ballads, to a play which asks what if he didn't die in exile - presenter Anne McElvoy is joined by actor and director Kathryn Hunter, biographer Michael Broers, historians Oskar Cox Jensen and Laura O'Brien and journalist Nabila Ramdani who looks at how Napoleon is viewed in 21st century France

Michael Broers has published the second instalment of his biography which is called Napoleon The Spirit of The Age.\nOskar Cox Jensen has published Napoleon and British Song. \nLaura O'Brien has published The Republican Line: Caricature and French Republican Identity