“We are not going to take sides,” Mr Jégo said in a reference to widely
differing accounts of Napoleon’s legacy in Britain and France ranging from
brutal dictator to heroic visionary.
The park is also expected to house a museum, a hotel, shops, restaurants and a
congress centre.
Other curious potential attractions include a ski run through a battlefield
“surrounded by the frozen bodies of soldiers and horses” and a recreation of
Louis XVI being guillotined during the revolution – the precursor to
Napoleon’s rise to power.
“It’s going to be fun for the family,” he Mr Jégo told the Times.
Napoleon looms large in the French national psyche but has no national museum
to his name. The park would help keep him on the map while boosting the
local economy, with a potential 1.5 million visitors in its first year.
Mr Jégo hopes that construction work can start in 2014 and the park open its
doors in 2017. He is due to provide more details on the attraction won
February 18 – the 198th anniversary of the Battle of Montereau.
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