Word: courtier
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...three years older than Napoleon, and who followed Napoleon because he wanted to win immortality by being his Boswell. He was so open in his admiration for the Emperor that his hard-eyed rivals called him "Rapture." Another follower was Charles Tristan de Montholon, a born courtier who accompanied Napoleon into exile because his debts were so great he could go nowhere else. Swaggering, hypersensitive, jealous Caspar Gourgaud also went along because he had no other choice. General Henri Gratien Bertrand, Napoleon's Grand Marshal, tall, skinny and timid, "had the face of a middle-aged woman...
...consumingly ambitious, Caesar dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over the place and becoming the darling of Rome...
Swedish police arrested last week that courtier of King Gustaf V who has been nearest to the font of Swedish chivalry. The exalted prisoner, Baron Nils Stiernstedt, proved touchy. When his captors tried to question him he had a magnificent nervous breakdown. Swedish papers were so scared of the story that Swedes had to dig most details out of Danish papers...
...political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which its author was jailed for 18 months, the famed French essayist acts as literary stooge to the Italian courtier, whose unscrupulous policies are, by implication, ascribed to the Bonaparte Emperor...
...night of the banquet, Cellini's affairs have gotten out of hand. Alessandro, who wants Angela at the banquet, introduces her as Cellini's mistress. Furiously jealous, the Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith...