Hi kids! Sorry I’ve been so scarce, but I spent the last week and then some in France on vacation. I love France for a lot of reasons, and one of them is the love-hate relationship many of her citizens have with Napoleon Bonaparte, the early 19th century scourge of Europe. French citizens credit Napoleon with essentially creating modern day France, and her transition from a monarchy into today’s modern social democracy, with a pit stop at Emperor-Dictator in between that ran roughshod through Europe and North Africa.
Yet, with the good, there’s a lot of bad...like constant warring with the rest of Europe, for example.