Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This canvas, valued at a million francs, had been presented to the town of Lyons many years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...
Moving ponderously to avenge the cuckoo of Ajaccio, a force of 800 blue-clad, blue-capped gendarmes landed from the mainland under command of General Fournier. The General's first move was to commandeer the largest table in the Cafe Napoleon, swankiest cafe in Ajaccio, only one with a plate-glass screen to protect the customers on the terrace from the mistral. He ordered two bottles of Byrrh for the use of the staff, and spread out his maps. His troops were divided into three columns and sent to scour the island...
...force of about 200 French, British, U. S., Italian and Spanish reporters who tipped off the natives unwittingly, drank up all the beer and asked so many questions that General Fournier found it impossible to concentrate. The air of Ajaccio, the air that fed the genius of the young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew up the 200 reporters in the public square last week, gave each one a rifle and sent them, happy as schoolboys, to hunt bandits in the woods by themselves and not bother...
Even so, as the week progressed sensitive General Fournier felt that the populace was not in favor of his expedition. Instantly dismissing the suggestion that feeling would improve if he would move out of the Cafe Napoleon and allow the natives to resume their accustomed seats, he wrote long appeals to the people of Corsica for support, inserted them in all Corsican newspapers. In particular he wanted to know the whereabouts of Corsica's "mastermind," Andre Spada, the bandit chief. His home had been raided; he had fled farther into the mountains...
...jumped the Earl of Coventry, rushed to his father-in-law's cell and acquainted Lord Kylsant with the failure of his appeal. Lady Kylsant arrived sobbing. She and the huge man who had been called "Napoleon of the Seas" when he dominated the White Star, Royal Mail and numerous other lines (TIME, Feb. 23) had a last embrace. Then Lord Kylsant said to two warders who were hovering nearby, "My good men, I am ready to go with...