I’ve burned incense in the churches
and I’ve washed with cleansing lye.
I don’t want to smell like birches
or go lay where lilies lie.
I only wish to have again the scent
of her, from days now spent.
Napoleon
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Yes I believe so. In any case I think you caught the essence of the man.
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Well, I’m not sure gow accurate it is, but there has just been a major movie released about Napoleon
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I must say, I needed to catch up on some background reading to come to grips with this fragrance
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Yes….
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Politically beneficial to him, she was the wife of a voracious reader, brilliant military strategist and first consul of the French Republic for fourteen years; she couldn’t give him an heir, yet the scent lingers there.
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