Word: napoleonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Followed curious times in Europe. In France was a young man called Louis Napoleon who had a famous uncle on the strength of whose name he, too, became Emperor...
...Alexander I and Napoleon", Professor Karpovitch, Sever...
...materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department has expanded from an obscure to almost the central department...
...papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle where Pauline Bonaparte, sprightly sister of the Emperor, held...
There the Emperor Napoleon sent the Empress Josephine to pass a quiet spell. Later her very room was occupied by M. Paul Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet...