Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tain regime had been even briefer than the interim Directory which, during 1795-99, compromised the French Revolution's ideals and opened the control gates to Napoleon. No longer able to maintain the fiction of personal power, Pétain handed over the destinies of the country he professed to love to the hands of a man abhorred throughout France. To Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler's Auvergne shyster, Pétain gave a dictator's power to rule by decree. For himself, Pétain succeeded in preserving at least the voice to appeal to the wavering...
...When Napoleon's troopers stabled their horses in Milan's monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie and scribbled on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, they were behaving as soldiers have always behaved in Europe's wars. But Axis vandalism against other nations' cultures has been deliberate and systematic...
Born in Paris in 1796 of parents who ran a successful millinery shop (Madame Corot was modiste to the court of Napoleon I), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot started to paint at 26, did not sell a painting for many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence...
...pushed on. A German news agency reported that Rommel in shirt and shorts, minus his coat and his favorite grey-&-white striped scarf, fled from a field headquarters just in time to avoid capture by British tanks. Arriving at a new base, he cracked (according to Nazi propaganda): "Like Napoleon I lost my equipment but there won't be any Waterloo...
...Napoleon lacked two months of being 46 at Waterloo. Wellington had then just passed his 46th birthday...