Word: aristocratism
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General Armand de Caulaincourt, first Duke of Vicenza, was born in Picardy in 1773, became a soldier at the age of 14, a brevetted second lieutenant at 15, a member of the National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien...
...year-old officer was oppressed by great worries. His army was unfed, undisciplined, dissipating every victory by pillaging. His staff was jealous and unreliable. The suspicious Directory in Paris hampered his activities. He was outnumbered by the Austrians and the Piedmontese. Moreover, his bride of 17 days, a onetime aristocrat, did not answer his letters. In less than four months Napoleon had virtually driven the Austrians from Italy, defeated superior forces, been hailed as a liberator, transformed his army from gangs of plunderers to skilled, enthusiastic fighting units, won the esteem of rivals, conducted one of the most significant military...
...would be a funny prank to distribute the cadavers over the lawns of various visitors at the resort who have in times past offended him. All this becomes vastly complicated when Marco's daughter suddenly returns home with the news that she is engaged to a rich young aristocrat from Dutchess County, and when the rich young aristocrat appears in the natty uniform of a member of the New York State Police, whose forces he has joined for adventure. Meantime, Marco is about to lose his brewery to unscrupulous bankers, and his house is additionally beset by one Douglas...
...parents to arrange her marriage, to be dominated throughout it by her husband and her mother-in-law, to have no interests outside her family. But by the time Shidzué Ishimoto was 30 she had broken most of the conventions of her class, had married a reckless, unstable aristocrat who changed from an extreme radical to an archreactionary, had studied stenography in a New York business college, successfully operated a yarn shop in Tokyo, helped to introduce the first birth control clinic in Japan...
...singing rang through most of the civilized world, earned her the rating of the world's greatest coloratura soprano. She sometimes sang a little off pitch and she was not a good actress but her beautifully pure, light voice, her vitality and the lean, aquiline face of an Italian aristocrat got her $4,500 for a single concert. For a comparatively small salary she stayed with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company until...