There are plans afoot to build "Napoleonland" in France. And, no, before you ask . . . I'm not kidding.
Funding is as yet unsecured, but preliminary plans are for the theme park to be built at the site where Napoleon defeated the Austrians in the Battle of Montereau in 1814 in Montereau-Fault-Yonne just south of Paris. The six-day battle was the nation's last military victory over the Austrians.
Having apparently not gotten the memo telling the organizers of the park that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, they plan to re-create the Battle of Waterloo on a daily basis and visitors may even be able to take part in the reenactments. They will also be able to take in a water show recreating the Battle of Trafalgar, a la the entertainments once staged at London's Vauxhall Gardens.
A museum, a hotel, shops, restaurants and a congress are all expected to be built at the theme park. French politician Yves Jego, who is backing the project, hopes that construction work can get underway in 2014 and that the park will open its doors in 2017. One has to assume that Jego will not be seeking re-election, as things go from bad to worse in the bad taste department with further plans to include a re-creation of the killing of Louis XVI, France's last King, who died after being guillotined during the Revolution and. . . . . . . yet another attraction which will allow visitors to ski around the bodies of soldiers and horses frozen on the battlefield.
Why are there no plans to build Artie World instead?
Amen to that, Kristine!!!! Celebrate the man
ReplyDeleteThis is appalling.
Maybe they could recreate the whole Terror. One "ride" could have people riding in on wagons, then dragged up to a guillotine. They could place their heads in the wooden form and hear the sound of the (hopefully fake) blade rushing down.
Can you say bad taste? Unbelievable. No doubt the signature food at the park will be cake.
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