Word: napoleonism
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...steps in. As the report had it, Macmillan warned that Britain would not sit idly by while a German-led Common Market squeezes it out of Europe and achieves hegemony on the Continent. Macmillan reportedly recalled that in the past Britain had joined hands with Russia to crush Napoleon's France; the British now might be forced to lead another peripheral alliance against Europe, particularly in view of what he allegedly called the revival of Naziism in Germany...
Flat Denial. In Paris, the crack about Napoleon brought cries of British perfidy; in Bonn, banner headlines screamed...
...airport by an unusually paternal President Charles de Gaulle, who towered a foot above him, the little visitor made his way down a 150-yard red carpet, past the lines of severely correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox...
...once occupied by Lenin, she threw her solid arms about French Communist leaders and bussed them resoundingly. At the middle-class department store, the Galeries Lafayette, she fell in love with a pale green at-home dress. Later she took in a bit of the Louvre-the Mona Lisa, Napoleon's crown, the Venus de Milo-along with two of her daughters, in a 40-minute sprint. Meanwhile, at a luncheon at the Diplomatic Press Association, her husband spoke again...
...little-known Albrecht Altdorfer, who worked chiefly as an architect and lives through no more than two dozen surviving pictures. As a painter, he ranks close to Durer himself. The Pinakothek has six Altdorfers, including the fabulous picture of the battle of Alexander and Darius at Gaugamela. Napoleon once confiscated the painting, and reportedly hung it in his bathroom at Saint Cloud. Five feet high and painted in the meticulous lapidary manner of a miniature throughout, the picture so absorbed Altdorfer that in order to be free to finish it, he refused appointment to an important political post...