Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Globe - A Tin Napoleon...
...said that Napoleon modelled the University of Paris after the plan made by Alexander Hamilton for the University of New York...
...sixteen men. The shops direct the politics of those who frequent them, and these sixteen men in turn direct the politics of the shops. They thus control the local politics of Boston, and constitute an oligarchy far more dangerous to this common wealth than any man like Caesar or Napoleon ever will be. The open bar is the chief instrument of this ring in the government of Boston. If a supply of the fatal alcoholic poison must be kept somewhere, as many people assure us, let if be in miserable out-of-the-way houses on the side streets...
...appears in this month's number, with a brief introduction by Minister Whitelaw Reid. In it Talleyrand replies directly to his accusers, and denies categorically and with emphasis that he had anything to do with the execution of the Duc d'Enghien or with an alleged plot to assassinate Napoleon...
Evidently from the applause the audience would like to have heard J. L. Dodge speak again. His gestures and vivacity, coupled with his appropriate inflection, brought "Napoleon and the Gamin" vividly before the audience...