Word: napoleonism
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...conventional histories the life of Michel Ney, cooper's son whose brilliance and bravery in the service of Napoleon raised him to be Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskowa and Marshal of France, ends before the guns of a firing squad in Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined...
...later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon, my last hope is gone...
...Teacher Ney settled in Iredell County, N. C. In the library of nearby Davidson College, whose seal he designed, he read books on recent French history, drew sketches of Napoleon and Ney in the margins, scribbled comments on the authors' accuracy. On his deathbed in 1846 he declared: "I am Marshal Ney of France." He was buried in the cemetery of Third Creek Presbyterian Church near Statesville...
...Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror, Napoleon, Wellington, Kellermann, Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles of Sweden, Gates at Saratoga, Meade at Gettysburg, Joffre at the Marne- all are there for the edification and inspiration of West Pointers...
...Bean (Owen Davis Jr.) is a male secretary who spends evenings typing, gratis, a fellow-roomer's treatise on reincarnation. Gathering from this work that a man's success depends on knowing what he was in past incarnations, Bean consults a seeress who tells him he was Napoleon Bonaparte. To live up to his astral personality, Bean buys a loud checked costume recommended in a magazine suspiciously resembling Esquire and defined as an "English shooting suit." He spends a weekend at the house of his boss (Robert McWade), swigs his liquor, spanks his daughter Mary (Louise Latimer...