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The Flight of Eagles : Napoleon's escape from St Helena, Napoleon II (King of Rome, Duke of Reichstadt), his mysterious son and grandson, the poet Apollinaire - 100 years of secrecy, Paperback / softback Book

The Flight of Eagles : Napoleon's escape from St Helena, Napoleon II (King of Rome, Duke of Reichstadt), his mysterious son and grandson, the poet Apollinaire - 100 years of secrecy Paperback / softback

Part of the A Triptych of Our Kin series

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Napoleon's escape from St Helena and retirement; his son and heir, Franz, variously the King of Rome, Napoleon II and Duke of Reichstadt, Franz's hidden son, brought up in the Vatican, and Franz's famous grandson Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki), poet, contemporary and friend of artists such as Picasso, Braque, Rousseau, Duchamp and inventor of the terms Cubism and Surrealism. 200 years after Napoleon was on St Helena and 100 years after the death of his great-grandson, Apollinaire, in the era when the great empires of Austria - Hungary, Russia and Germany and their autocratic and dynastic rulers, the Habsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns, who controlled much of this narrative, were pushed aside, it is time for these tales to be told, for the Eagles to fly.

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