May 16, 2013
Looking Out of Napoleon’s Windows
During our trip to Corsica, we took a day-trip to Ajaccio, birthplace of one Napoleon Bonaparte. Perhaps you’ve heard of him.
The ancestral Bonaparte home, Casa Buonaparte, is still intact, having been continually owned by members of the family until 1923. It is now a national museum housing relics of the Emperor and his family.
I did this weird thing where I was completely uninterested in the historically significant pieces inside the museum, but fixated on the windows and what you could see of of them instead.
Note to self: if I want my future children to be megalomaniacal, maybe have them grow up in a house with quaint vistas of colorful neighboring buildings and orange trees?
Beautiful, I love your perspective, it is fascinating to see what his view must have been like. It’s not at all how I imagined, so colourful!
Thanks! That’s exactly what I thought. Though perhaps all of those orange trees were planted in more recent decades, I like to pretend that they were there when Napoleon was a child.
Fascinating! I did the same thing recently at Chenonceau, it’s like getting a little insight into how people lived there. xx