Word: napoleonism
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...Madame Mère, Napoleon's mother, was the most impressive personage on the Napoleonic scene. Tiny, skinny, weasel-eyed and taciturn, she looked like a witch in a fairy tale and held her family under an unshakable spell...
...Italians are scoundrels!" Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. "Not all," an Italian noblewoman slyly replied, "but a good part (non tutti, ma buona parte...
...overburdened with Bonapartes. Like a swarm of corpulent drones they rose from the thickets of Corsica and fell with a sodden thump on the sinecures of empire. Noisy, ugly, greedy, provincial, quarrelsome, ostentatious, lewd and downright criminal, they terrorized Europe off and on from 1801 to 1870 and frightened Napoleon himself almost as much as the Grand Alliance did. All through his reign they ridiculed, insulted and cheated him, and when he needed them most a number of them cynically betrayed him to his enemies. Of all modern dynasties, the Bonapartes were without doubt the most squalid...
...only 48 universities and other institutions of higher learning, Belgium 20 and France 40, while the Soviet Union has 719 and the U.S. 2,080. But the crux of the problem lies in the antiquated European grade and high school structure, which was progressive at the time of Napoleon and is now a positive drag...
...Robert Vaughn [April 1] is more O.S.T.R.I.C.H. than D.O.V.E., I'd say. Napoleon Solo is no more. Even tongue-in-cheek derring-do involves a necessary small illusion, and Mr. Vaughn has shattered it beyond repair. If David McCallum holds the same head-in-the-sand views, U.N.C.L.E. has been annihilated from within...