Noblesse Oblige: Alan Strauss-Schom On How Napoleon III “Left France a Modern and Prosperous Nation”
6 min readJun 17, 2018
Donald Trump has dramatically demonstrated how frighteningly easy it is to render character assassinations of opponents, manufacture fake news, and distort otherwise well-documented facts. There is, however, precedence for this kind of malfeasance: French government and the country’s historians have been doing it since…