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Napoleon’s Penis… and Rasputin’s

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte crowned

Napoleon was buried in six concentric coffins, but he lies mutilated, without a penis, among other body parts, in Les Invalides in Paris. Severed parts of his intestine and his teeth have passed through auction rooms or been sold in…

Napoleon crossing the Alps: between art and propaganda

Napoleon crossing the Alps. Final version

Two versions of the same historical image that, in reality, never happened. That really is political propaganda The painting of the neoclassical artist  Jacques-Louis David ‘ Napoleon crossing the Alps ‘ navigates, for the course of History, between art and propaganda, like practically all…

Who was the world’s first dictator?

Who was the first dictator in history. What powers did he have? And who was the first dictator in modern history?

Today we think of the dictators of today’s countries as “he who arrogates or receives all political powers , and supported by force, exercises them without legal limitation “. At least that is what the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy says. But, as the same…