Word: napoleonism
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...When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge with an iron hand. Her brother, Lord Raincliffe, who had a passion for circus clowns and fire engines, often came to stay, locked himself in his room for hours every day, conducting imaginary orchestras. A more humdrum guest was Florence Sitwell...
...West Country. Westward still, where Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
Awful Truth. In Manhattan, New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that in California a psychiatric patient was asked if he were Napoleon. He craftily said "No." A lie detector showed he was lying...
...swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist he carries half a dozen knives. ... On his head he wears a tall black hat which makes him look like one of Napoleon's marshals...
After that Hazlitt devoted himself to Napoleon. "Ghastly, shrunk and helpless," his voice reduced to a "hoarse whistle," Hazlitt ground out a four-volume life of his hero which is now forgotten. Wrote the disillusioned biographer: "I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and practical malignity of man. . . . Hatred alone is immortal...