![]() ![]() At least one historian has drawn parallels between the two men. ![]() The Élysée said Emmanuel Macron’s speech marking the anniversary would be ‘neither hagiographic, nor a denial nor repentance’. The Élysée declared Macron was breaking with the cautious approach of his predecessors and “will not shy away” from the controversy surrounding Napoleon, who exercised power between 17, but added that his speech would be “neither hagiographic, nor a denial nor repentance” and that he would not be giving a “retrospective judgment 10 generations later”. He will speak after a presentation by French historian Jean Tulard, one of the country’s leading experts on Bonaparte, and lay a wreath at the foot of his tomb at Les Invalides in Paris in what the Élysée insists is a “commemoration not a celebration”. On Wednesday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, will attempt to walk a fine line through this political minefield when he marks the bicentenary of Napoleon’s death at the Institute of France with a group of academics and high school students. Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb at Les Invalides in Paris, where Emmanuel Macron will lay a wreath on Wednesday. ![]()
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