Paname: The Secret History of Paris
Paname: The Secret History of Paris
Amber Minogue
12. A Whiff of Grapeshot
15 minutes Posted Jan 28, 2018 at 1:43 pm.
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Come with me to the Saint Roch church and  have a look at some of the scars left on Paris. These particular ones date all the way back to the Revolution and can blamed a certain young Corsican and, in the words of historian Thomas Carlyle, a whiff of grapeshot.

 

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Further reading Andrew Roberts - Napoleon the Great.