just once more before his final exile to distant st. helena. the house was empty then. his former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was had died. she had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. for in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. for everywhere artists were touched by his aura. napoleon s official architects percier and fontaine periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. for after napoleon came to power, he planned to make paris into a capital worthy of imperial rome. la madeleine begun as a church, was continued by napoleon as a temple to glory. the architect, vignon, intended it to be a r
the english allowed him to return here, just once more, before his final exile to distant st. helena. the house was empty then. his former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was, had died. she had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. for in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. for everywhere, artists were touched by his aura. napoleon s official architects, percier and fontaine, periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. for after napoleon came to power, he planned to make paris into a capital worthy of imperial rome. la madeleine, begun as a church, was continued by napoleon as a temple to glory
he came back, once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here, just once more, before his final exile to distant st. helena. the house was empty then. his former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was, had died. she had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. for in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. for everywhere, artists were touched by his aura. napoleon s official architects, percier and fontaine, periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. for after napoleon came to power, he planned to make pa
he came back once more, to meditate during the fateful 100 days before waterloo, and after that last catastrophic defeat, the english allowed him to return here just once more before his final exile to distant st. helena. the house was empty then. his former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was had died. she had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. for in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. for everywhere artists were touched by his aura. napoleon s official architects percier and fontaine periodically had sent an illustrated newsletter of engravings to czar alexander showing the recent public works commissioned by napoleon. for after napoleon came to power, he planned to make paris int