Word: napoleonism
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...Louis NAPOLEON AND THE SECOND EMPIRE (342 pp.] - J. M. Thompson -Noonday Press...
...resolute exile named Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, crossed the Rhine into Strasbourg one day in 1836 and waved one of his uncle's aigles (eagle standards) at the French garrison...
...Napoleon once slept there, but the occupants of the moldering Grand Hotel in Bruges, Belgium do not boast about the fact. A dedicated band of scholars and students, they are trying to shape a new kind of Bruges-one in which Napoleons will be impossible. The institution they belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye...
Lloyd George, Wilson and Clemenceau were the Big Three at Versailles. Years later, Lloyd George, according to Australia's war time Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, had this apology to make: "I did my best, but seated as I was between Jesus Christ and Napoleon Bonaparte . . ." How we progressed in the 25 years between Versailles and Yalta! I wonder if Churchill will live to say: "I did my best, but seated as I was between Pontius Pilate and Attila...
...Chicago's Art Institute, an event the institute hailed as "one of the most remarkable 'recoveries' in art history." The Crucifixion, originally painted for Seville's white-robed Dominicans, dates from 1627, the period of Zurbaran's arrival as a mature artist. Seized by Napoleon's troops around 1807, it turned up in 1880 in the hands of Spain's Duke of Alba, who donated it to a Jesuit seminary in Canterbury, England. In 1950 the painting turned up again, heavily repainted, and was offered for sale first to the Louvre, which turned...