Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who did follow him found that Pierre Larousse was no one to hide his own opinions. He criticized the Roman Catholic Church (which promptly put his work on the Index), denounced the Emperor Napoleon III ("France . . . owes him an epitaph that could only be this: Napoleon the Last!"), refused to admit that General Bonaparte had ever become an emperor at all. As far as Larousse was concerned, Bonaparte should have dropped dead "at the Chateau de St. Cloud, near Paris, the 18th Brumaire, Year VIII* of the French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse...
...office which this man embodies is the oldest witness of Western civilization. One of his predecessors faced Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is an office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered...
Major General William Frische Dean drove the 44th Division hard through Mannheim and Weinheim; then, swinging south toward Austria, the 44th took Lorch, Ulm (where Napoleon had routed 50,000 Austrians), Memmingen and Kempten, and cleared the Fern Pass. Obviously, the war was in its last phase, but strapping Bill Dean would not relax. He called in his regimental commanders and told them: "Our business is fighting. We will keep on fighting until we get the official word that the war has ended...
...moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...
...love literature of the world." Written in a style often "reminiscent of Goethe," they combine "exquisite tenderness . . . range of vocabulary . . . wealth of allusion.'' They are also a fascinating guide to the man behind the neurologist: from them emerges suddenly a tough, jealous, ferocious figure, resembling a young Napoleon...