Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idealism with ethics and with "thinking religion," he recalled that this spirit flourished in the 18th Century, that it gave impetus to such reforms as the abolition of slavery, that its great desire was "to make the kingdom of God a reality on earth." But in the 19th Century Napoleon Bonaparte and philosophers like Hegel put realism to the fore...
...forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...
...raised that Mickal was a Syrian, under 21, and a resident of Mississippi, hence unable to qualify for the job. The "Kingfish" retorted that his Legislature would seat Senator-elect Mickal and that was all there was to it. "Mississippi has annexed itself to Louisiana," he observed, "anyhow. Napoleon came 'rom Corsica, didn...
...Soviet Government which outlawed them in 1917. Based on old-wives' tales current three centuries ago, they have been shown to draw most heavily upon two obscure books of the mid-19th Century. First of these, published in Brussels in 1865, was a political attack on Napoleon III, written by a French lawyer named Maurice Joly and entitled A Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu. In this work, for publishing which its author was jailed for 18 months, the famed French essayist acts as literary stooge to the Italian courtier, whose unscrupulous policies are, by implication, ascribed...
...painter's mother was a well-to-do dressmaker, a onetime modiste to the court of Napoleon I. His father kept the ac counts. Young Camille Corot was apprenticed to a draper but speedily demonstrated his lack of business sense. His father finally let him go. ahead with his painting, gave him a monthly allowance of 1,500 francs. All his life Camille Corot was comparatively rich...