Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later Chancellor von Papen, acting for President von Hindenburg, issued decrees partitioning Prussia into approximately the same "provinces" which existed in 1807-when Prussia was conquered by Napoleon, Emperor of the French...
...Lausanne, where peace conferences have been held since 1300 A.D., where Charles Dickens wrote Dombey & Son and where three brothers of Napoleon met as exiled Kings after the Battle of Waterloo, there met last week the Lausanne Conference on Reparations & War Debts...
...course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide...
...time with the life of contemporaries. Other and excellent lecturers there are at Harvard, but no one else who could reveal more by a roguish shrug, by an ironically poised understatement, than a volume with footnotes. Castlereagh and Talleyrand, ravelling and unravelling the maze at Vienna, the first Napoleon and the third, playing with the bright counters of empire, Victoria with her angel and Bismarck with the door-knob in his hand;--we have hear about them often, but only known them once. We shall hear about them again, but nevertheless they are going. And for this the Vagabond laments...
...Congress of Vienna was never very far from reality. The Treaty of Paris had concluded peace in May 1814, incidentally mentioning a general rendezvous two months later in Vienna, to parcel out Napoleon's empire. No official summons was ever issued but in two months nearly every major European diplomat was in Vienna. Most of them might as well have been cinemactors; only five nations had anything to say: victorious Russia, Prussia, Austria, England and defeated France. They dealt behind doors, not in open Congress, through shrewd diplomats, not bemedaled clotheshorses. Metternich, the Tsar, and France's Talleyrand...