The triumph of Napoleon Bonarparte, L'empereur des Francaise. Child and Father of Revolutions.
As we walked through the City of Lights we were enthralled by the glitz of the streets and all the everyday humdrum of the metropolis. It never fully struck me until much later that, as with so many Cities of Old Europe, this was The Place where so much had happened.
Then again, I am not Edward Gibbon, who was convinced, by the mere sound of the footsteps and the vespers of monks amidst the ruins of grandeur, to write the history of an empire.
