Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on British and French screens once again on November 22, courtesy of Sir Ridley Scott. The British director’s Napoleon – Joaquin Phoenix as the emperor – is scarcely breaking new ground, subject-wise. The Corsican has featured, it is claimed, in some 700 films and 80,000 books. A book or article on him is apparently published somewhere every day. So this is today’s effort.
By a decree of March 28, 2022 published in the Official Journal on March 29, Florence Mangin was appointed French Ambassador to the Holy See by the President of the French Republic. The post had been vacant since the retirement of Elisabeth Beton-Delègue on December 31.