soon after marat's death, david watched from a window in the place de la revolution while marie antoinetteent to the guillotine. he left us a poignant and eloquent sketch. the murder of thousands followed in the purge known as the terror. the frailty of reason was tragically exposed and, as so often in history, fear of worse disorder led even reasonable men like david to turn to a strong leader to solve their dilemma. the man they thought their savior was napoleon bonaparte. in 1815, in the aftermath of napoleon's defeat at waterloo, czar alexander of russia visited paris and saw the vendome column, crowned by its imperial statue of napoleon. "were i to be so highly elevated," he quipped, my head would surely spin with vertigo." even a czar could not imagine such dizzying heights of glory, "but," as he added, the higher you climb, the harder you fall." and what heights napoleon fell from. in those brief few years, he led french armies to italy, egypt, spain, austria, prussia, and even moscow itself, and during that meteoric time, this room, his library at the chateau of malmaison, was his

. >>> marie antoinette said "let them eat cake." >> an official in ukraine might think differently.y? pranksters threw cake at him during a news conference in kiev today. the aides of the president quickly under his desk and then, as if nothing happened, continued on with his comments. his jacket, as you can see there, took the brunt of the cake. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, a cooler day today. we still have the cloud cover with us. here's a live look out at center city from the adventure aquarium. still have the clouds in the area. it's going to be another cool night tonight. temperatures will be on the cool side. open your windows again as we go into the weekend, though, just keep in mind we have rain moving in. this will be actually starting off your weekend. but behind the rain we have football weather moving in. cooler temperatures. a lot cooler in about the mid-60s in time for the eagles game. i'll show you the forecast in a second. temperatures around 70 degrees in philadelphia, 71 northeast philly. millville coming in at

. >> marie antoinette thing, but with pizza. >> jimmy: nobody eats it, they just wear it. now. >> we're a sick society now. aren't we? >> jimmy: steve, what flavor cake are you going to be throwing at people? >> it's vanilla. >> jimmy: vanilla, okay. that's a good color, i guess, for stain purposes, right? >> oh, yeah, this is going to be great. right in someone's face. >> jimmy: have you ever accidentally thrown an ice cream cake and injured someone? >> no, no, no. but you know what, it would be a good way to stop a fight. >> jimmy: it would. >> that would be a good way to stop a fight. >> jimmy: okay. why don't you throw a warmup cake into the audience, just to kind of, you know -- oh, well that wasn't very far. oh, my god. all right. it's like gallagher is back and he's doing great. we'll be right back with dave salmoni and zoo animals. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪"boogie shoes" dave's been working on his game... morning double bogie. hey, three putt. and starting each day with a delicious bowl of heart healthy kellogg's raisin bran. how's your cereal? sweet! tastes like winning. how wo

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