Volume 50, Number 13 · August 14, 2003
Dreaming of Corsica
By Jeremy Bernstein
Pascal Paoli: Père de la patrie corse
by Antoine-Marie Graziani
Paris: Tallandier, 340 pp., x21.50 (paper)
Not long ago, at the start of a bicycle tour of Corsica, I found myself in a hotel on the northeastern coast, in Bastia, Corsica's largest city.[2] In the breakfast room was an oversized reproduction of an engraving which had been done in 1806 by the French artist Carle Vernet, who had accompanied Napoleon on his Italian campaign. Vernet specialized in battle scenes, so it was not surprising that there are soldiers in the foreground, what look like a fleet in the harbor in the background, and a tower-like structure with smoke rising behind it. The caption under the picture read 'Déli-vrance de la Corse.'
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