Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NAPOLEON'S LETTERS (312 pp.)-Translated and Edited by J. M. Thompson-Everyman's Library...
...south; Viking raiders from the north, who left their word for landing-stage (bryggja) behind in the name of the Flemish city of Bruges; from the east fierce Germanic tribesmen, whose rough gutturals are reflected in the language of Flanders; from close at hand the troops of Louis XI, Napoleon, Wellington...
...enough of reality. He takes to sulking at home and dining a crew of worthless pickthanks who steal his cigars and tell him what he wants to hear. After some months of "conversing with his buttons," he begins to get peculiar notions. One day he buys a bust of Napoleon and another of Louis Napoleon. Pretty soon he has his beard barbered like Louis Napoleon's. "Wait," he murmurs to Sophia, "I shall still make you Empress." His cronies become marshals, his hens pheasants. In the end, both reason and money are exhausted. Rubião crowns himself Emperor...
GASPARE DEL BUFALO (1786-1837) was exiled from his native Rome, shortly after he became a priest, by Napoleon's occupation. To care for the Romans, who had been left almost without a clergy during the occupation years, Father del Bufalo founded the Society of the Precious Blood, an order which has been notably successful...
...Napoleon Bonaparte...