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...France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practice of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: at harvard | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...made movies like Bunker Bean, a comedy about a male stenographer who believes he is Napoleon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Here's Lucy | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...countries are trying to find out whether the deaths were mass suicide, mass murder or some bizarre combination of the two. An international arrest warrant has been issued for Jouret and fellow cult leader Joseph di Mambro, a 70-year-old French Canadian called "the Dictator" or "Napoleon" by some in the sect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Reign of Fire | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...spent an off-season of soul-searching and rule-changing after the "Year of the Kicker," as generally mundane offenses settled into field goal contests to decide their defensive battles. (Didn't we have an 18-12 scoreline last year? Those numbers bring Napoleon and Russia or Tchaikovsky to mind, not excitement on the gridiron...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Coaching and Clowning Around | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

Nearly four years have passed since 1 climbed the Widener steps and surveyed the Yard as Napoleon might have surveyed Austerlitz, or Waterloo Today, it's embarrassing--but a sweet embarrassment--to recall that former...

Author: By Jacques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Ivory Tower Blues | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

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