[original: "exit, pursued by bear"]
Something MADE OF AWESOME has recently happened to me. But since I have no time, I'll leave you with that cryptic statement, a rain check for a telling at a later date, and a copy of the article I wrote for the latest issue of the school paper.
( EXIT, PURSUED BY BEAR: on Shakespeare, melissophobia, and (obliquely) existentialism )
( EXIT, PURSUED BY BEAR: on Shakespeare, melissophobia, and (obliquely) existentialism )
Also, I don't know if this applies to your coursework at all, but I was so incredibly, geekily flabbergasted when I found out that Napoleon is considered an absolute hero in Poland. It seriously took me about three days to get over.
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I just... am blown away by your cleverness, and I'm fairly certain I'm missing half of it anyway.
(Also, I've read this about five times, and this bit especially --
(Bear-baiting, by the way, was a primitive Elizabethan sport in which bored commoners tied up a bear to a post, set dogs on it, and watched them fight to the death, kind of like Question Period in the House of Commons.)
-- has yet to fail to make me laugh out loud.)
♥!!
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*blushes* Thank you, dear. :)) You have just made my day!
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But yeah, from what I remember, after 1795, the year of the third and final partition of Poland by Russia, Prussia, and Austria-Hungary, a lot of Polish emigres supported Napoleon. There were actually legions created in Italy that marched under the French colours, led by General Dabrowski (there's a song, Dabrowski's Mazurek, written during that time, often sung by these men, which became the Polish National Anthem in 1926). They never actually made it to Poland to fight; however, in 1807, Napoleon established the Duchy of Warsaw, and although the ruling Duke was subject to France, Poland, in at least a small way, had a bit of its independence back. Napoleon's defeat was the end of all that, of course, and the whole set-up was full of faults, but that's also of course rather glossed over. And as a result, Napoleon's not looked upon at all as a villain (or a silly little short man with an inferiority complex :P), but as a hero who supported a free Poland.
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