Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...
...more. Conceived by the Emperor Napoleon, the Legion of Honor is French honor incarnate?and to the Latin honor is all. As a supreme honor to Emperor Napoleon the original Grand Collar reposes in his tomb. The President of France wears only a duplicate. Man can do no more...
Years later, the Emperor Napoleon conceived the project of making a national collection of David's works in the Imperial Museum. He ordered Painter David to buy back the Death of Socrates even if he had to pay 60,000 francs for it. However, as Painter David had prophesied to his Emperor, M. de Trudaine refused all offers, said to Painter David: "I pray you to say to Napoleon that I esteem your work above any price. "Disgruntled, Napoleon remarked, "It is necessary that I respect property," stopped trying to get the Death of Socrates...
...violent republicanism caused him to be elected to the September 1792 Convention. The next year, he voted for the death of Louis XVI. Later he became President of the Convention, found French inspiration for his pictures of historic catastrophes- Last Moments of Lepelletier de Saint-Farceau, Marat Assassinated. When Napoleon became Emperor. Painter David portrayed him seated on a fiery horse, pointing the road to Italy...
...writer has culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality. It was a careful...