Between the over-the-top battle scenes in Ridley Scott’s biopic “Napoleon,” a delicate sound emerges from a piano Napoleon once owned and gifted to his second wife Marie-Louise as a wedding present.
NPR’s Olivia Hampton brings us the story behind this historic instrument.
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