Today, July 4th, we are celebrating our great country's independence. So what better occasion than now to poke fun at the French?
Socialist François Hollande became President of France last month and is sure to carry on the type of economic decline his party is known for. Socialism is a parasite that is hard to get rid of once it takes hold. But what happens if the French get fed up? Another French revolution?
Well, just in case they want him, Napoleon’s great-great-great-grandnephew, Jean Christophe, the current head of the Imperial House of Bonaparte, is standing by ready to take charge of the country in case they want to return to the good old days.
Napoleon Bonaparte didn't have any children, so the royal line passed through his brother and on down the line to Christophe.
This comes to us by way of OMG-facts.com which says, "The Imperial House of Bonaparte doesn’t seem to really do anything." But they're ready, just in case.
This might be a good spot to plug a very entertaining but overlooked movie, The Emperor's New Clothes, with Ian Holm playing Napoleon Bonaparte in an alternate history in which Napoleon escapes from his island prison and goes to Paris to rally his followers and regain his rule. I won't give the story away, but it doesn't go as planned as he is faced with the reality of a post war Paris full of widows and orphans and no one surviving who knew him personally. There is one haunting scene in which he takes a short cut through the yard of a mental institution and encounters numerous crazies who are insane with the delusion that each of them is the great Napoleon Bonaparte. What a sober awakening for the real Napoleon.
But hey, you hang in there Jean Christophe. Your day just might come.
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