Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short Shrift. Soon after De Gaulle went off the air, Parliament assembled in an angry mood. In speech after speech, Deputies warned against the risk of dictatorship, reminding France that direct presidential elections in 1848 resulted in the seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...
...Without mentioning what was then the most closely guarded of Gaullist secrets: the fact that his maternal great-great-grandfather was born in Germany. De Gaulle's Teutonic ancestor was Ludwig Phillip Kolb, a barber-surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was born in Grotzingen in 1761 and fell to British bullets at Waterloo...
Died. Marie, Princess Bonaparte, 80, wealthy widow of Greece's Prince George and great-granddaughter of Napoleon's eldest brother Lucien, who shook off her royal trappings and reputation as "the greatest heiress in France" to become a lay psychoanalyst (she wrote a book analyzing Edgar Allan Poe) and translator of her close friend, Dr. Sigmund Freud; in St.-Tropez, France...
...last week capped his historic, hugely successful state visit to West Germany with a momentous confession. Speaking for once as a citizen rather than as the voice of France, Charles de Gaulle revealed that he himself, through "the grandfather of my maternal grandfather," a barber-surgeon who served in Napoleon's army, has been one-sixteenth German all these years...
...Francisco is a pastel city; Caracas is gaudily bright. And Paris, for generations, has been elephant grey. But the grime that made it grey is vanishing in a flurry of scrubbing that would shame a Baltimore housewife. Reason: a law passed by Napoleon III in 1852. decreeing that all buildings in Paris should be cleaned every decade, has finally gone into effect...