Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar's path...
...perhaps, an inevitable ex tension of the long-established French practice of proxy marriage. Napoleon used the Archduke Charles in Vienna as his stand-in at the altar with Marie Lou ise of Austria, while the Emperor stayed comfortably in Paris. And proxy marriages between soldiers and their girls back home became common in World War I. But during the Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed...
...your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author who wrote that remarkable book, The Mechanical Man." None of Mao's guests knew what book he was talking about, and they were too polite to ask.* "Above all," Mao said, "I'm an admirer of Napoleon. There isn't one of his works I don't know...
...Bullock's view, Hitler was the ultimate barbarian, a political genius without the scruples of a Caesar or the ideas of a Napoleon, who gave the world a megalomaniacal warning of his plan of conquest, then proceeded unswervingly to carry it out. Revised and reissued, Bullock's portrait today risks being taken for just another book about Hitler. In point of fact it is now, as it was originally, the standard against which the others are to be measured...
Last Chill. What ended the marriage was Napoleon's belated discovery that he could father an heir. For years he had assumed, on the evidence of Josephine's two children by her first marriage, that he was responsible for the fact that his own marriage had been childless. In 1806, however, he became the father of an illegitimate son, and in 1809 his mistress of the moment, Polish Countess Maria Walewska, revealed that she was pregnant. Several months later, Bonaparte announced his decision to divorce Josephine for the good of the state. Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria gave...