Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished, he sent in his papers. Back in Paris once more, he fell in love with an actress. They went together to Marseilles, where Henri had a job in a wholesale grocery, and were happy for some time. Then Melanie got an engagement in Paris and they parted. In Napoleon's 1806 campaign against Prussia, Henri was once again with the army, in the commissary department. That little business over, he returned to Italy, where he took by storm a lady he had formerly been unable to subdue. He entered the fact thus in his diary: "Victory...
This cynic admired one man: Napoleon. In the disastrous campaign against Russia, Henri followed him, this time as a member of the Emperor's staff. With the abdication of Napoleon, Henri took refuge in Italy, turned to literature. His first book, under the pseudonym Louis Alexandre Cesar Bombet, was proved to be a plagiarism from one Carpani. From Henri's point of view, however his version was merely a brilliant condensation of a dull book. He was looked on with suspicion by the Austrian authorities in Italy, who thought he might be a Carbonaro, and finally was expelled...
...Manhattan's Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte and other living Bonapartes are descended from Napoleon's brothers...
Riffling through the B's, correspondents discovered that a most interesting bastard's daughter claimed to be a direct descendant of the late great Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French.* She lives in a small villa outside Paris. Called "Mme. Mesnard Leon," she is a retired schoolteacher. On her own admission and by the authority of Dr. Hoefflinger, Mme. Leon is the daughter of Count de Leon who was the illegitimate son of Napoleon and one Elenore de la Plaigne, a complaisant lady of the Imperial Court...
...news of my father's birth was received by Napoleon at Pultusk, Poland, when he was preparing the campaign that culminated in the victory of Friedland," said Mme. Leon last week. "Napoleon was already thinking of divorcing the childless Empress Josephine, so you can imagine what consequences the news of my father's birth might have had. But what could Napoleon do? Nothing! Marriage with my grandmother was out of the question. . . . He could only give the child the last syllables of his own name, calling him Count Leon...