Word: bonapartist
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Underground Prince. On Paris streets, wispy old women still peddled literature advocating a return to Bourbon rule, but the royalist cause has been as good as dead for years. By tacit consent of the government itself, 36-year-old Prince Louis Napoleéon, the Bonapartist pretender, had been calmly ignoring the Law of Exile ever since World War II. A well-heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year...
...have some fun with Fèvre, get some publicity into the bargain. In the men's magazine Adam he described him as an "homme déshydrate" (a dehydrated fogy),* and got some friends to show the article to Fèvre. Fèvre's Bonapartist pride was stung...
...Stalin's chief administrative assistant, and with Beria in the next top post, the new Government can hope for the full support of the secret police. As for the Army, the other force on which the Kremlin has to reckon, the new marshals like Zhukov, who might have Bonapartist ambitions, are suspect. Voroshilov and Budenny, as old party warhorses, are politically much more reliable...
...Robert Michels (1876-1936) argued that all democracy tends to grow into what he called "Bonapartism"-a government in which parliament continues to exist but is entirely "subordinate to the Bonapartist leader, for only he completely expresses the popular will...
Long-haired, tiny-mustached M. Guigui read a prepared statement on French labor's resistance to Germany's manhunt for manpower. Then a London Daily Herald reporter asked: "To what extent do the French people distrust De Gaulle's Bonapartist tendencies...