FRANCE

May 7th, 2008 by Kieran Harris in
The informational text I chose to analyze, “Napoleon Still Haunts France,” is a news article published on the online edition of BBC news. The author is a BBC journalist, Caroline Wyatt, works as a journalist inside Paris, France. Wyatt works inside Paris so she is able to get the information she needs on the history of Napoleon Bonaparte. She is physically in the country but she is not an insider. The significance of her being in Paris is that she gets to hear from other people’s perspective and how they fell about Bonaparte. The places intended to read this are history museums and other places involved with or involved in French history. She also wrote it for any of the public to read so they are knowledgeable about Bonaparte.
This text was written for the purpose of people knowing more about Napoleon Bonaparte and how he was so successful in his time, she also explains a brief summary of his history. The writer is trying to be objective because she is explaining how great he was and the history of him. The writer does not have strong emotions, but she does explain in great detail how his reign was great and how wonderful he was as an emperor.
The point of view of the author is that she is a knowledgeable about him and she has spoken to museums that have explained to her details about Napoleon. She has got information from people about how much they know of him. She quotes Peter Hicks from the Napoleon Foundation, who said, “There’s enough genius to go around, we don’t have to talk him up.” The article was written Thursday, 2 December 2004. This date is significant because she wrote this on the 200th anniversary of the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4061461.stm