Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joel Barlow, Minister Plenipotentiary to France, who perished of cold and privation at Zarnowiec, Poland in 1812, during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
There were cheers. Word had just been published that Brer Briand and Premier Laval had finally made up their minds to visit Berlin on Sept. 27 and 28, first visit of leading French statesmen to the German capital since Napoleon entered the city 125 years ago as commander of the French army...
Tourists in Corsica this summer have wanted to see the birthplaces of those two native sons, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris' Chief of Police Jean Chiappe; they have wanted to see the mountains and the peasant dances and a flock of wild mouflon* and then they have wanted to see a real Corsican bandit...
...Mills's first wife was Margaret Rutherfurd. After their divorce she married Sir Paul Dukes and later Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat. The second Mrs. Mills, whom the Undersecretary married in 1924, was Mrs. Dorothy Randolph Fell, who divorced John R. Fell in 1923 for drunkenness. Mrs. Mills has three children?Dorothy who made her debut last year; John, 21, who works with Mergenthaler Linotype Co. in Brooklyn; and Philip, called "Tiny," aged...
...victims. That night he prayed with the three pastors. At dawn the doors of the shed in the prison yard were opened. Executioner Groepler wheeled out what he had been hammering and filing on all day, a dusty French guillotine, 130 years old, which, with the Code Napoleon was a present from the Emperor to the Rhine states. At 6 a.m. Killer Kuerten walked unmoved to the machine, stretched out his naked neck. Down crashed the knife...