Word: napoleonism
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...Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...
These books were gathered largely by Cte. Alfred Boulay de la Meurthe, the historian of the Concordat of 1801. He inherited the collection of his grandfather, who as Minister of Justice under the first Napoleon was in a position to accumulate many important official and unofficial publications. The grandson's interest in the Revolutionary period expanded to include almost everything concerning the relations of church and state in France during the nineteenth century...
...first movement of the Third Symphony will be played in its entirety. The Eroica Symphony was, of course, originally planned to glorify Napoleon, but the title was changed when Napoleon made himself emperor...
When Lord "Pam"&#* was born into fashion and fortune, England was still unconvinced that the U. S. existed. He was barely out of school when, as Secretary of State for War, he fought Napoleon (1809). Several months after Abraham Lincoln died, he died- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston,† Prime Minister, the most popular nobleman who ever ruled England, the only Prime Minister who ever swept the polls without better reason than that he was himself...
...laughed at great men. Yet there was no greater man in public life anywhere when he died. Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...