Word: montholons
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...Cases, who was 49, 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...
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