Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Two Captains, mentioned by Mr. Allison, is the biography of my great grandfather, John Jacob Lehmanowsky, general under Marshal Ney, member of Napoleon's intimate circle, close friend of the Marquis de La Fayette of Revolutionary War fame. Loving France, the country of his mother (his father a member of a Polish family able to trace its lineage back through many generations), John J. Lehmanowsky, after an extensive education in Poland journeyed to France and immediately became embroiled in the turbulent affairs of the country. He decided to support Napoleon and rapidly rose in his esteem, becoming...
...Artist Krans below his buffalo-horn mustache sported a full goatee, or Imperial. Reaching its greatest glory on the person of Vittorio Emanuele II, this type of whisker was named for the slightly less imposing beard of Napoleon...
Since Metternich's career was an almost unbroken series of triumphs after Napoleon's fall until his own, in the Austrian Revolution of 1848, his biography deals principally with intricate diplomatic maneuvers, grows more tedious as it advances. The best pages in Author du Coudray's book consequently cover Metternich's relations with Napoleon, and the Congress of Vienna. Born in Coblentz in 1773, Metternich was educated at Strasbourg a short time after Napoleon. He possessed a practical, precise mind that made him disinterested in diplomacy, interested in science. Leaving his diplomatic apprenticeship in Dresden...
...employers and trade unions, 4) vacations with pay, 5) co-operatives to handle French peasants' wheat and fix its price, 6) forced retirement at an earlier age of France's whiskered, fusty reactionary bureaucrats and 7) partial nationalization of the Bank of France, founded by the great Napoleon...
...family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts of this malevolent pair to force his coach off the road into an Alpine pass, Anthony finds Angela getting along nicely in Paris as mistress to Napoleon. Then, accompanied by his small son, he sets off for the U. S. hoping to find the more abundant life...