Napoleon was not short. There’s also a point that he didn’t speak with a strong French accent <\/blockquote> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n<\/div>
So Napoleon was not short. There\u2019s also a point that he didn\u2019t speak with a strong French accent. He spoke with a very, very strong Corsican-Italian accent that he couldn\u2019t shake the whole way through his life.<\/p>\n
Obviously this is cinema. It\u2019s there as a running gag. But it\u2019s interesting that it is almost an anglocentric depiction and James Gillray<\/a>-esque depiction \u2013 that\u2019s where it come from.<\/p>\n
Georgian satirist James Gillray was a genius in terms of the art of caricature, and he has this running gag of a teeny, tiny Napoleon who would throw tantrums when he didn\u2019t get what he wanted.<\/p>\n
Read more | How did caricaturist James Gillray satirically take down the Prince Regent?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That image, so visceral because of Gillray\u2019s skill of making these characters pop out of the page, has stuck all the way through history. It\u2019s why we have such a strong semblance of Napoleon as a figure of ridicule.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting that it\u2019s happening not just in UK cinema, but across Hollywood as well. Ridley Scott\u2019s Napoleon, however, looks like it is going to do things properly.<\/p>\n
Napoleon is perhaps going to be portrayed how Napoleon might want us to have remembered him, but in the process it\u2019s not going to fall down the British propaganda line of those common tropes that are just plain wrong, and in some respects, slightly tired.<\/p>\n
Dr Zack White is a military historian and author specialising in the British Army in the early 19th century<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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