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...Aiglon, the only son of Napoleon and Empress Marie Louise, was the principal martyr of the Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried...
...security police "instead of fighting the real enemies of the state, were used for entirely different purposes"-meaning Stalin's personal reign of terror over his own citizens. Nor do Zhukov or Kuznetsov get off scot-free: Zhukov has not been cleared of what Khrushchev called his "Bonapartist" tendencies to put the army outside party control, nor has Kuznetsov been absolved of his temerity in opposing Khrushchev's emphasis on submarine over surface ships...
...expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family, the royalist and Bonapartist nobility of France. The Americans who had treated her so cavalierly in Manhattan had finally got their comeuppance. John Mackay was a patient and devoted husband; cushioned by an income of "a million dollars every thirty days," he encouraged Louise in all her extravagances. When he was not engaged...
...poet he was, but a public one. In politics he ran a banner-waving, pamphlet-strewn, populace-stirring course-monarchist, Bonapartist, finally a rebel and exile who came to be called "Grandfather of the Republic." "It is ill praise to give a man that his politics have never changed for 40 years," he explained. "That is no more than to praise water for being stagnant, a tree for being dead...
Died. Princess Clementine Albertine Marie Leopoldine of Belgium, 82, publicity-shy younger daughter of Belgium's late Leopold II, great aunt of Belgium's current King Baudouin, mother of prosperous Businessman-Prince Louis Napo leon, 41, current Bonapartist pretender to the throne of France (as great grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest brother); of a heart ailment; in Nice, on the French Riviera...