Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Escape. After a week of excited, contradictory news despatches, it was possible to reconstruct in detail the departure of the Royal family from Madrid, an event to rank with Louis XVI's flight to Varennes, Napoleon's departure for Elba...
...Frank G. Webster and now president of Stone & Webster, Inc. His father was the late William Alfred Hovey, editor of the Boston Transcript. His grandfather was Charles Hovey, fiery Boston abolitionist. Chandler Hovey winters at Chestnut Hill, Boston, points with pride to some large China vases bearing paintings of Napoleon by Artist Jacques Louis David...
...Widener Room of the Widener Memorial Library an exhibition of collected material on Napoleon has been opened to the public. The exhibition includes portraits, maps, colored plates, and signatures...
...received, but it brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex that in themselves they defy solution. Bismarck could unify and control Germany by outwitting Napoleon III, but no man today can lay out a course for himself and hope to outwit circumstance. To elaborate this point the author cites the case of Mussolini in Italy. His contention is that if Il Duce had lived in the last century his tremendous ability coupled with the country...
...Napoleon's councillors, fearing an attempt on the Emperor's life, discover...