Word: napoleonism
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...Gerald Clarke's Essay charges Marshal Ney with responsibility for Napoleon's debacle at Waterloo. Surely the blame should go to the dilatory and unfortunate Marshal Grouchy for his failure to intercept Blücher's Prussians, and not to the intrepid Ney, who on the contrary, attacked Wellington two hours ahead of time...
...they consider to be the city's prime example of exquisite early ironwork. Les Halles were designed by Architect Victor Baltard, working with Baron Georges Eugene Haussmann, the city planner who created much of modern Paris. Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught the spirit. The grace of what marketmen ever afterward called their "parasols" has enchanted generations of Frenchmen...
Some in New York's Social Register set believe that the marriage is somehow vaguely morganatic. Eddie's mother, Anne Finch, is descended from Robert R. Livingston, who signed the Declaration of Independence, administered the oath of office to George Washington and was envoy to France in Napoleon's time. His statue stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The other side of the argument is that the daughter of an American President does not marry up. In a meritocratic society, it is not convincing to suggest that the groom outranks the bride socially because of a forebear's accomplishments...
Ping Pong Samba. Last year Williams put down a Black Power riot that coincided with an attempted mutiny by elements of his 750-man army. In the recent campaign he attacked his leading opponent, A.N.R. (for Arthur Napoleon Raymond) Robinson, 44, as a "halfwit" and said the others "could change places with the jackasses in the canefields." He told voters: "I have the power. I say come, and they cometh, I say go, and they goeth." The boast inevitably inspired an opposition sign: COMETH, GOETH, VOTETH...
...minds for thousands of years. The ancient Greek Theophrastus believed truffles were a product of thunder. In the Middle Ages they were considered evil things grown from the spit of witches. Later they came to be prized as an aphrodisiac, and Madame de Pompadour fed them to Louis XV. Napoleon, who was having difficulty fathering children, begat his only legitimate son after eating a truffled turkey. He promoted a lieutenant to colonel for having given him the recipe. In 1825, Brillat-Savarin, the savant of haute cuisine, called truffles "the diamonds of gastronomy...