Napoleon - My Fake Diary

Friday, 17 October 2014

Winter 1803

Cher Journal Intime ( that's Dear Diary , to all you Anglais
Shop-Keeping Philistines):

It has been put about by your plebeian chroniclers , that I crossed the Alps , in the footsteps of Hannibal, on a bad-tempered donkey rather than a more sophisticated creature...This is ,of course ,a scandalous Anglophone lie...I , bien sur , traversed the Massif, on the blackest and most virile ,of stallions.....no sorry , the whitest and purest of Pallaminos ..Oh Merde , which is it ..Davide? ( you painted it ,after all , for a fee that will set you up for ever )