Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...silver commemorate the election, inauguration and episodes in the career of some of our presidents, among whom are Washington and Lincoln. A series of reproductions of medals in honor of the kings of France is interesting. They extend from the siege of Pharamond 430 A. D. down to Napoleon II, who died in 1832. Besides those we have mentioned there are a great many series of medals both curious and interesting. The collection numbers in all some 350 or 450 medals, forming a remarkable running history of the first half of the nineteenth century...
...number of the "Atlantic Monthly" contains a more than usual amount of good reading matter, which is saved from making the number heavy by the variety of subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem upon Napoleon III., entitled "The Last Caesar," a reverie in the Tuileries gardens, is one of the strongest of his later productions. Mr. William Chauncey Langdon contributes a sketch of Marco Minghetti, the lately deceased Italian patriot. Clinton Scollard's poem, "The Maenads" is carefully written, but does not have the spontaneity...
This Society held its second meeting yesterday evening. It was well attended. Mr. Cohn read a very interesting paper on the Comedie Francaise. This is a national institution. Napoleon signed the decree which settles the constitution of this society at Moscow, 1812. The president is called administrateur and is appointed by the government. The Societaires are the members who have been elected into the Comedie Francaise; the pensionaires, members who have been engaged by the administrateur. A committee is appointed to decide whether a play shall be produced or not; every play has to be read before them. The professors...
...action of the heart and the circulation of the blood. The size of an average man's heart was about the size of his first, - generally larger, - and weighed about one pound in a healthy condition. The pulsation of a healthy heart was about 72 to the minute, but Napoleon's was never more than 40, and Sir William Congreve's never less than...
President Seelye of Amherst is writing a life of Napoleon...