What French language is spoken under Napoleon and the First Empire?
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Napoleon document.
© Daphné Gastaldi
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
On the occasion of the bicentenary of Napoleon's death.
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Did you know that Napoleon spoke French very poorly?
But what French did we speak at the time?
How did French spread around the world during Napoleon's reign?
What words, what expressions in inheritance?
Jacques-Olivier Boudon
, Professor of History at the Sorbonne and President of the
Institut Napoléon
.
Author of numerous works on Napoleon.
Interview with Philippe Costamagna who heads the Fine Arts Museum in Ajaccio and the future Napoleon Museum.
Author of
Les tastes de Napoléon
,
published by Grasset.
By Baptiste Perrin.
And the chronicle of Lucie Bouteloup "The chip to the ear"
with the expression Old of the old woman.
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