Word: napoleonism
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...Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin died. His widow and her two children stayed in Peru four years before returning to France. After he had finished school, young Paul shipped...
...thesis that Paine's notoriety had its source in political rather than religious causes, but in his Tom Paine he gives more room than his predecessors have to the part played by Paine's personal makeup in turning him against Congress, his onetime heroes Washington, Burke, Robespierre, Napoleon...
...Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
...Baruch let her out only occasionally, at night. He wanted to keep her unspotted from the world. Her only companions, besides old Baruch and his maid-of-all-work, were a collection of death masks. Some of these masks she revered (Napoleon, Bismarck, Rameses, Goethe), one she loved...
...PEACE WITH NAPOLEON!-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...