Word: napoleonism
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Madlyn Rhue guest-stars as a lorn lovely who asks Agent Napoleon Solo for help...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Super-Agent Napoleon Solo needs Super-Schoolmarm June Lockhart to help him out of the clutches of Super-Enemy Ricardo Montalban...
Cancer, said the doctors in 1821. But Frenchmen have always suspected that it was his British captors on St. Helena who slew Napoleon Bonaparte at the age of 51. Now a British scientist, Hamilton Smith, thinks he has proved it: he subjected samples of Napoleon's hair to nuclear bombardment in Britain's Harwell reactors and found arsenic! Only, being an Englishman, he says that his associates believe it was Napoleon's French chamberlain, General Charles-Tristan de Montholon, who poisoned the Emperor. French historians hooted down the theory as so much old lace. The hairs were...
Perpetual Glory. As the trial dawned in Toulouse last week, millions of Frenchmen were still reeling from what one proud Corsican politician called the "idiocy" of Lyndon Johnson's recent reference to Napoleon as "a son of Italy." Hundreds of irreverent students dressed up in Napoleonic hats and racing shorts pedaled endlessly around the courthouse. Inside, three costumed judges bravely subdued their grins, prepared to try the defamation of Napoleon under the Code Napoleon...
...thus had no right to complain of being "psychically traumatized." Not only is it perfectly legitimate to satirize historic figures, said Perisse, but the Toulouse court lacked jurisdiction over a show originating in Paris. Equally scornful, Bousgarbiès' lawyer, Georges Boyer, replied that the Code Napoleon entitles every Frenchman to bring suit in his own city. And Boyer solemnly added: "There is no statute of limitations on the historic glory of France. The plaintiff was sorely hurt in his deeply patriotic convictions...