How a French Ex-Commando’s Archeological Find Unified Putin and Macron

PARIS—The French previous commando clutched an unconventional deal on an early-early morning flight from Moscow to Paris in September, on a mission blessed by the Russian and French presidents.

Stashed in Pierre Malinowski’s bag had been fragments of the tooth, leg bone and skull of French Basic Charles Etienne Gudin, a buddy of Napoleon’s, who was killed by a cannonball during France’s unsuccessful invasion of Russia in 1812.

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