Word: napoleonism
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...poet returned forlornly to Paris, and spent the rest of his days between the theatre and the cafe. He belonged to the generation which had been born under the shadow of Napoleon, and he felt deeply the sickness of that century which seemed like a long anticlimax to the Napoleonic wars. A later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred...
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...made him possible. the Guard stood by eagerly waiting for the great epitaph which the Emperor would pronounce as he stood before the tomb of Rousseau. Marshalls leaned forward on their scabbards, courtiers strained unintelligent ears to catch a phrase they might repeat. All waited a trifle obviously. Napoleon in his favourite green stared down at the stone and murmured half to himself, "The world would be a better place if neither you nor I had lived...
...Napoleon", Professor Langer, New Lecture Hall...
...Napoleon", Professor Langer, New Lecture Hall...