Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child's eyes out. Kids can read of a Cruel Boy who pulled the legs from flies, a Kind Boy who freed his caged bird, a Tease who frightened a playmate into insanity. The books excerpt Shakespeare, Byron, Scott and Whittier; McGuffey's great characters are Napoleon, Louis XVI. Lafayette and Washington. And William Holmes McGuffey (1800-73), an Ohio minister and schoolmaster, never spared the verse...
...Napoleon...
There lives today near Paris an ascetic, unobtrusive Frenchman who may ultimately succeed where others, from Charlemagne to Napoleon, ultimately failed. He commands no armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle...
...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future...