It is that special time of year, when England unites to complain about the historical inaccuracies in The Crown and then settles down to enjoy a television series everyone knows is fictionalized.
At the same time, the French press is in a lather over the depiction of Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s latest epic, complaining that the emperor did not take part in cavalry charges, did not fire a cannon at the pyramids and was not exactly the “sentimental brute” depicted. French audiences will love it.
