Napoleon in Saxony: The Emperor at Königstein.

Author - Brian Hawkeswood. Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung There are certain moments in history that feel improbably cinematic, where the figures we have cast as titanic—so often fixed in the marble of our imagination—are suddenly, briefly, revealed in utterly human scale, breathing the same damp, smoky air as the rest of us. One such moment occurred in the late summer of 1813, when Napoleon Bonaparte , Emperor of the French, found himself lodged not in the palaces of Paris or the heated salons of Milan, but in a fortress high above the Elbe River , amidst the wooded crags of Saxon Switzerland — Königstein Castle . ...