Word: napoleonism
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Joel Barlow, Minister Plenipotentiary to France, who perished of cold and privation at Zarnowiec, Poland in 1812, during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
...France wanted to know what was in the Premier's pockets. It was not enough for them that Mm. Laval and Briand were about to make an historic gesture, that they were about to pay the first official visit to Germany that any leading French statesman has made since Napoleon. They wanted to know what good it would do. What would they talk about when they got there? When Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius paid their visit to Paris two months ago (TIME, July 27) the world Press felt that the mere fact that German statesmen...
There were cheers. Word had just been published that Brer Briand and Premier Laval had finally made up their minds to visit Berlin on Sept. 27 and 28, first visit of leading French statesmen to the German capital since Napoleon entered the city 125 years ago as commander of the French army...
Tourists in Corsica this summer have wanted to see the birthplaces of those two native sons, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris' Chief of Police Jean Chiappe; they have wanted to see the mountains and the peasant dances and a flock of wild mouflon* and then they have wanted to see a real Corsican bandit...
...victims. That night he prayed with the three pastors. At dawn the doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...