DKR’s Cultural Musings, with a little bit of Memoir — History, Romance, and Costume Drama

Film poster for re-mastered Abel Ganz film Napoleon

I have liked the broadly defined genre “historical romances” since I was about eight. Off and on.

To top and tail this tale, when I was eight, using my father’s library card with his permission, I checked out a book by called Desiree, a fictionalized biography of one of Napoleon’s mistresses. (She actually went…