Word: corsican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outspoken he often exasperated Napoleon, Caulaincourt had opposed the war with Russia, refused to flatter his Emperor, so that, although the Corsican tormented his General, Napoleon also had a nervous desire for his praise and a respect for his honesty. This feeling deepened as Napoleon went down, until on the night of his attempted suicide he poured out his story to Caulaincourt alone while the sweat broke out on his sunken features and he waited for the poison to take effect. The poison was opium, belladonna and white hellebore. Napoleon's stomach rejected it and in place...
...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...
...Monstrous! Unendurable!" rose the Corsican cry of Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, defender of the late great Swindler Alexandre Stavisky's widow Arlette (TIME, Mar. 12, 1934 et seq.). "We are granted not even a fit place to sit down. Scandalous! Outrageous...
...Edward of Wales, aboard the Duke of Westminster's yacht, drew his pistol and fired repeatedly at some white fish with long tails seen leaping in the Corsican moonlight. Said Equerry Major Sir John Aird, "The sounds of the shots must have made the Corsicans think someone was murdering His Highness...
Jean Chiappe promptly challenged Pierre Godin to a duel.* Attempting to weasel, M. Godin at first refused to accept the challenge on the ground that M. Chiappe had "forfeited his dueling rights" by refusing to fight a Corsican editor in 1933. Later he accepted...