Margaret Rodenberg
Margaret Rodenberg is an award-winning writer with a passion for French history. A former businesswoman and an avid traveler, she is the proud director of the Napoleonic Historical Society, a nonprofit that promotes knowledge of the Napoleonic era, and she has journeyed more than 30,000 miles to conduct research, including to St. Helena Island. For more information, visit MargaretRodenberg.com, where she reports on Napoleon’s ongoing presence in world culture.
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Finding Napoleon
- By: Margaret Rodenberg
- Narrator: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 05, 2021
- Language: English
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After the defeated Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together African slaves, British... Read more
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