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Julia Margaret Cameron was a Victorian of great eccentricity, some means and considerable connections. She was born the year of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and did not take a picture until 1864, when her daughter and son-in-law gave her one of the earliest models, which consisted of two wooden boxes, one sliding inside the other. "It may amuse, Mother, to try to photograph," they wrote her fondly. Little did they guess. At first Mother could hardly tell the difference between treacle and collodion, the sticky fluid used to coat her glass negatives...
...opening movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony suggest some wild, overwhelming power to almost everyone, there is no way to say what the power represents. Beethoven described the opening theme as "fate knocking at the door." He dedicated another symphony to the memory of the great man he thought Napoleon had once been. Fate, individualism, the strength of a great man--these are the ideas a traditional 19th century mind brings to the work. But if these ideas were foreign to the listener the music could just as easily suggest the drama of collective action or revolutionary opposition to capitalism...
Many islanders worried that once Britain let go altogether, Gairy would set up a miniature dictatorship with himself as a pocket Napoleon. "There could be massive bloodshed in a few days," warned Maurice Bishop, one of the opposition leaders beaten in the first attacks last year. "The population is not prepared to be ruled by any madman, and it is very clear the 'jackal'-as the populace now calls him-is simply not prepared to resign. I think he is certifiably...
...Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris, an amateur pilot and accomplished horseman, whose royal line remained unbroken for 1,200 years. Here, though, a slight problem arises, since the 65-year-old count has a formidable rival in the person of Louis Jerome Victor Emmanuel Leopold Marie, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, 58, who re-established his clan's regal credentials as a doughty officer in the French Resistance during World...
...fort, Francois might have gone to the fort. He was drawn to the fort in his blackest moods. It was in ruins now, a remnant of the almost-glories of Napoleon III. We often found Francois there leaning against the rocks, making his own comfort out of fantasies of destruction. I circled the slimy stones. He was not there...