On the right: The painting it’s based on, the famous Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (1800) by Jacques-Louis David. In it, a white man — Napoleon Bonaparte — sits calmly on a rearing horse, his finger ...
Napoleon’s iconic hand-in-jacket pose has puzzled historians for more than two hundred years. Was it simply proper etiquette—or something more? Between strict social rules and clever symbolism, ...
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