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...Monarch of All Moods. Napoleon took proud delight in acts of clemency. When a German traitor's wife burst into tears on being shown an incriminating letter written by her husband, Napoleon smugly informed Josephine that he had said to the weeping woman: "Madam, you can throw that letter into the fire: I shall never be strong enough to punish your husband." But clemency never interfered with policy. "You must make the skipper speak," he orders, of a sea captain suspected of spying for the English. "You can . . . squeeze his thumbs under the hammer of a musket...
...language is still its own native Thai. Its religion is still Buddhism. Even the French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their own purely administrative capital at Vientiane 130 miles from Luang Prabang. Since 1904 the French have ruled through one venerable monarch, King Sisavang Vong, now old (68) and gouty, but no easy man to scare. When the Communists threatened Luang Prabang November 1952, the King refused to quit, declaring: "This is my country. This is my palace. I am too old to tremble before danger." The King's elephant...
...Globe-circling monarch...
...please his royal patrons, who liked to identify themselves with famous forebears or Biblical characters, the artist worked out his scenes as a series of allegories. In the main scene, Charles is shown as a monarch of France, and the lady with crossed arms before him is his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, who ruled as regent from Louis XI's death in 1483 until Charles came of age. But the scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles...
...Sport of Kings & the People. Until time, the breaks, the handicapper's lead weights, a bigger heart or better blood dethrone him, the Big Grey reigns as popularly chosen monarch over a domain that has grown into the nation's biggest spectator sport...