Napoleon: Destiny and Death

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Overview

May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to take his last breath. The son of a Corsican family, he has been close to death on many occasions since, as a young captain in the revolutionary army, he seized Toulon from the royalists in 1793.

Cast

T

Tristan Delus

Napoleon Bonaparte

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

P

Patrice Gueniffey

Self - Historian

Jacques-Olivier Boudon

Self - Historian

T

Thierry Lenz

Self - Historian

P

Pierre Branda

Self - Historian

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