Napoleonland? You're having a laff...
No, I’m not. It is not a joke. And no, I am not making it up.
I don’t have to. A former French minister, one Yves Jego, beat me to it.
(Yes, I am already laughing…)
According to a recent Telegraph article, Monsieur Jego has drawn up plans for an amusement park to rival Disneyland (in whose mind?) to be located at the site of the French Emperor’s (mushroom Corsican upstart) final win against the Austrians in 1814, at Montereau just south of Paris.
Sorry - this is so good an article I simply had to re-blog it. And it perhaps helps show why there's always been ... let's just say 'a history' between us and our friends over the Channel!
And what’s comes next???? oh boy
Oh, they eventually decided cold-shoeing both took longer and gave a poorer fit – shoes didn’t stay on as long. So by the 1840s they’d gone back to hot-shoeing.
It was one of those fads you get in the horse world, a bit like the idea docking a horse’s tail strengthened its back. Bonkers, but people believed it.