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Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

Why is Napoleon such a figure of ridicule in cinema?

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Ridley’s Scott’s Napoleon trailer: a historian reacts

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A boy signs a petition against slavery (bottom left) in an 1826 satirical cartoon originally titled 'John Bull Taking a Clear View on the Negro Slavery Question', by R Cruikshank (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The children who fought for the abolition of slavery . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of Napoleon.

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Napoleon Bonaparte depicted as emperor of France in c1804. By now he had his sights set on establishing a dynasty (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Napoleon (almost) destroyed the French Revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How the Age of Revolutions rocked the Royal Navy . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Luddites: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The myth and memory of Waterloo . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Duke of Cumberland leans awat from two ghostly men, wearing white robes and wielding razor blades, as smoke rises around them

Royals on the stand: how Queen Charlotte’s son the Duke of Cumberland faced down a libel scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

(l-r): Thomas Turgoose, Charlotte Ockelton, Sophie McShera and Michael Socha star as members of the Hartley clan in BBC Two series The Gallows Pole (Photo by BBC Pictures)

The Gallows Pole The true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners

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'The Reward of Cruelty', 1751, by William Hogarth (Photo by Guildhall Library & Art Gallery/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

“An enlightened turn”: how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in 18th-century Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.