What Danish actress played Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut in a film adapted from the novel "The Death of Napoleon"?
The Emperor's New Clothes (2001 film) The Emperor's New Clothes is a 2001 film that was adapted from Simon Leys's novel "The Death of Napoleon". Directed by Alan Taylor, the film stars Ian Holm as Napoleon (his third performance as that person, after "Napoleon and Love" and "Time Bandits") and Eugene Lenormand, a Napoleon look-alike, Iben Hjejle as Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut and Tim McInnerny as Dr. Lambert. The plot re-invents the history surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte's exile to St. Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.
Eugénie Grandet Eugénie Grandet is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac, about miserliness and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eugénie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his ambitious project, "The Human Comedy", while writing "Eugénie Grandet" and incorporated it into the "Comédie" by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition, which he also dedicated to Maria Du Fresnay, his then-lover and mother of his daughter Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay, and, as was proved later on, the "real" Eugénie Grandet.