Word: napoleonism
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There is a roomful of drawings and water colors by Ingres which has been called "incomparable." David is represented by a large diagrammatic study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" and by preliminary sketches for the scene of the crowning of the Empress Josephine by Napoleon in December...
...When she was born," said Winston Churchill, "Napoleon III ruled France, and Palmerston had only recently ceased to be Prime Minister of this country . . . Yet she lived into this atomic age, through two fearful wars which cast almost all the thrones of Europe to the ground . . . but also transformed the world...
...Malenkov has at his disposal an apparatus of tyranny beyond anything known in the past. Julius Caesar, who went to the Senate unarmed on the Ides of March, had to deal with-and to a degree respect-a tradition of freedom, almost absent in Russia. Napoleon I, who vainly tried to legitimize his rule with a papal anointing and a blue-blooded wife, suffered military disaster of a kind that has not yet befallen Soviet Russia. Russia's own Peter the Great, who sent his only son to death for disagreeing with his reforms and failed to pick another...
...made possible, in part, by the defection of hundreds of Stalin-hating Russian generals and the surrender of 4,000,000 peasant soldiers. But other millions of Russian soldiers held out, and so did Stalin's luck: General Winter stepped in, as he had 130 years before, when Napoleon was in Moscow...
Died. Philip H. Rosenbach, 89, bachelor bibliophile and president of the Rosenbach Co. (Philadelphia, New York), world's largest dealer in rare books and manuscripts; in Beverly Hills, Calif. While colorful younger brother Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, the late "Napoleon of Books," paid spectacular sums for first editions, Philip was called the "Invader" for his own worldwide literary sleuthing...