The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jan 21 at 6:07am
Behold the plans for the new French theme park to rival EuroDisney: Napoleonland!
“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.
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May '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
Hey kids! Let's go freeze to death in the snows of Moscow! Or let's go over to Waterloo and see Wellington and his Prussian friends!
Look! It's the monorail to Saint Helena!
Fun, fun, fun!
Mar '11
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
No no no, we're not going to take sides.
We just built Vichyland to be a park the whole family can enjoy. There's museums, hotels, shops, restaurants, and a congress centre--well, its sort of under construction at the moment, there was a fire.......but we have a train the whole family can ride......
Dec '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
They could have a water park called "Trafalgarland" too!
May '10
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That guillotine event should be a million laughs. Maybe they can have Ayman al Zawahiri come for the grand opening.
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I hate to see the parents trying to explain to the kids that it's ix-nay on Finding Nemo's Submarine Voyage in favor of the Battle of Borodinocoaster.
Oct '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
To the tune of Frere Jacques:
Aug '11
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
What a great idea! Let us celebrate the life of the prototype for the modern military dictator. Secret police, wars of aggression, and the first man to use peace treaties to advance his conquests. Certainly a life worthy of celebration. All other dictators must be green with envy.
Mar '11
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
I want the hat. If I can't get the hat, I'm not going.
Nov '10
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Surely the waterpark would be called Water Lube, like in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!
Oct '10
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Thank goodness nothing like that would work in the US where no-one dwells upon, let alone re-enacts, a bloody civil war...
Aug '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
Dude, if I get to ride the Jena and Austerlitz roller coasters everything will be worth it. The Peninsula War theme ride, a kind of Pirates of the Caribbean in munitions carts, is sure to be a big hit.
Dammerman -- I think the water park is actually called "Waterloo" and is located at the real Raging Waters of ... San Dimas...Dude! San Dimas is also home to former University Nevada kicker's famous restaurant "Zendejas'"
Just sayin'
Aug '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
You think Borodino would be a Rollercoaster...pshaw...it would certainly be a Soaring Over Borodino ride.
Aug '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
If they include a "Fictional" section, they could have whole areas about Horatio Hornblower, or if non-fiction Horatio Nelson. (That is if they really aren't "taking sides.")
I'm actually warming to this idea.
Mar '11
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
A re-enactment I could understand, Napoleon and the battles he fought were key events in French history. A desire to recall and understand your past makes sense but a theme park is the exact opposite, trivializing events of grave significance.
Edited on Jan 21 at 10:35amJun '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
How about a Masters and Commanders ride? We'll blow those frogs out of the water.
Jun '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
More seriously, this is the concluding paragraph from Paul Johnson's short biography of Napoleon. Some great thoughts on Napoleon as one of the fathers of the totalitarian state and on the necessity for a humble heart--it's one of my favorite quotes:
Jun '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
Nathaniel Wright: Dude, if I get to ride the Jena and Austerlitz roller coasters everything will be worth it. The Peninsula War theme ride, a kind of Pirates of the Caribbean in munitions carts, is sure to be a big hit.
Dammerman -- I think the water park is actually called "Waterloo" and is located at the real Raging Waters of ... San Dimas...Dude! San Dimas is also home to former University Nevada kicker's famous restaurant "Zendejas'"
Just sayin' · 2 hours ago
The ride commemorating the Battle of the Nile would be awesome until the French version of the EPA shuts it down because all the fire contributes to climate change.
Apr '11
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Can't wait to visit the ice cream stand!
"Zig-gy Piggy! Zig-gy Piggy! Zig-gy Piggy!"
Apr '11
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In front of each ride the kids will have to stand up against a little Napoleon "You must be this high" sign.
Dec '10
Re: The French Have a Word For It: Gerber
Claire,
Would you please read my post on Member Feed of a month ago called Flames: A Chanukah Story. (Notice I've embedded my link this time. You can teach an old dog new tricks.)
This contains a major reference to Napoleon. Rabbi Schneur Zalman himself (founder of Chabbad) the greatest Jewish Theologian since Maimonades, had a very negative view of Napoleon. My post relates just how much Rabbi Schneur Zalman's negative attitude cost him.
By the way I agree with Rabbi Schneur Zalman completely.
Please would you read my post and comment on it. Nobody has read it in a month and I'm getting a complex. I can't afford a psychiatrist, have a heart.
Regards,
Jim