Exhibition On 'Fake' Scottish Blind Bard to Open in Paris
The Scotsman › November 08, 2005
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AN EXHIBITION celebrating Napoleon's obsession with a blind Scottish poet who was denounced as a fake is to open in Paris this week.
Ossian, the blind bard from the third century, was "discovered" in the middle of the 18th century by James Macpherson, a poet from the Highlands.See the full content of this document
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Exhibition On 'Fake' Scottish Blind Bard to Open in Paris
Napoleon read his poems in an Italian translation and took a copy on his campaigns. An ...
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