Word: napoleonism
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...Quoted from the farewell address of Representative J. Napoleon Tincher of Medicine Lodge, Kan., famed 250-pound fisticuffer who left Congress last week to plunge into the oil business...
...Napoleon's intense desire for a legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L'Aiglon, who died...
...Napoleon's last will and testament: "It is my wish that my ashes shall be laid to rest on the bank of the Seine, in the midst of the French people ... I shall meet my brave warriors in the Elysian Fields. ... We shall talk of our battles to the Scipios, to Hannibal, Caesar and Frederick. What a delight that will be! If only people here on earth are not terrified at seeing so many soldiers put their heads together! ... I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England...
...Significance. Napoleon is always good biographical material, but seldom has he been exhibited in so dramatic, episodic and psychological a book as Mr. Ludwig's. Europeans were agreeably amazed in 1925 (when the book first appeared) that a German had written so sympathetically of Napoleon. Now, in the able translation of Eden and Cedar Paul, it is well on its way to be the outstanding biography...
...Napoleon had two known illegitimate children. One, Leon, became the no-account husband of a U. S. cook; the other, Count Walewski, was a distinguished Minister of State in the Second Empire...