Napoleon Is Part of Us, Macron Tells France After Row Over Anniversary
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French president macron. Commemorated napoleon today on the two hundredth anniversary of his death. Emburey eleanor beardsley reports. Mccrone had to walk a tightrope. As napoleon's legacy divides france knipling benefits. Napoleon bonaparte is part of us. Said mccall paying tribute to the emperor's genius as a strategist legislator builder of modern france but macron also spoke of napoleon reinstating slavery in the caribbean and his wars that caused millions of deaths in europe. And beyon- mackall called the wreath laying at napoleon's massive marble tomb of ration-. Not a celebration. He also cautioned against judging figures of the past by today's ethical