Blogs May 29, 2014 at 4:01 pm

Arches of Spite, from Rome to Vientiane

Brendan Kiley
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which was the Napoleonic way of thumbing his nose at the Italians


Considering how obsessed Napoleon was with classicism, I find this characterization to be more than a little inaccurate. He built his own Arch of Titus because he wanted to *be* a Roman emperor.
keshmeshi on May 29, 2014 at 4:20 PM Report this

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