Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking back on it, Napoleon remembered the Egyptian campaign as "the most beautiful time in my life." He pictured himself, he wrote, "founding a religion, marching into Asia, riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. I was full of dreams...
...Napoleon, Ohio...
...hero say to Napoleon, when the Emperor names him King of Westphalia: "Gee, is my wife gonna be happy when she hears this...
...always had it in my soul," Rene Fribourg once said, "to love French 18th century things. It is true that my bedroom is Napoleon I, and my wife's bedroom is Charles X, but most of the rest is 18th century. I love Louis XV and Louis XVI." Until his death at 83 in January, only guests to the white stone Fribourg mansion off upper Fifth Avenue ever saw his big collection of furniture, art objects and painting; now it is to be knocked down at auction. Peter Wilson, suave chairman of the world's biggest auction house...
...lived surrounded by rich inlay, intricately carved paneling, rare porcelains, precious furniture. He could point to a table and say. "That belonged to Marie Antoinette." A magnificent desk with inlay of metal and tortoise shell in ebony had belonged to Queen Victoria. Fribourg's bed was one that Napoleon had had made for himself and Marie Louise; it bears the date of their wedding. Fribourg owned 18th century Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres china designed by Boucher; he had 70 rare gold boxes that were once used for snuff or jewelry, of which the best examples could today...