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Word: montholon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record the great man's stupendous banality after he lost the thing that made him interesting -- his power. "October 21 (1815). I walk with the Emperor in the garden, and we discuss women. He maintains that a young man should not run after them . . . November 5. The Grand Marshal (Montholon) is angry because the Emperor told him he was nothing but a ninny . . . January 14 (1817). Dinner, with trivial conversation on the superiority of stout over thin women . . . January 15. I fetch the Imperial Almanac. The Emperor looks up the ages of his brothers. 'Josephine faked her age.' (He) looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Island of the Lost Autocrats | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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