Word: napoleonism
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Riffling through the B's, correspondents discovered that a most interesting bastard's daughter claimed to be a direct descendant of the late great Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.* She lives in a small villa outside Paris. Called "Mme. Mesnard Leon," she is a retired schoolteacher. On her own admission and by the authority of Dr. Hoefflinger, Mme. Leon is the daughter of Count de Leon who was the illegitimate son of Napoleon and one Elenore de la Plaigne, a complaisant lady of the Imperial Court...
...shifts to France in 1812. The old Senlis tomb in the monastery is excavated by Gravedigger Jobey. He discovers the battered coronet, sells it to the blacksmith, who sells it to the jeweler. Young André Jobey enlists in the Army with a friend and they go to Russia under Napoleon. In the retreat from Moscow they meet a Russian officer, Burin, who has just lost his silver whip and is looking for it drunkenly through the snow. The whip has been picked up by somebody and given to Napoleon who passing through Senlis on his way to Paris, flings...
Prince Bismarck. President Wilson, President Harding, "Tiger" Clemenceau, Napoleon III and Alexandre Dumas fils had only one weakness in common: prostatic hypertrophy...
Emil Ludwig is chiefly famed for biographies (Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, July '14); Diana is his first novel to be translated into English...
Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...