Word: napoleons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when he succeeds-despite the tall odds against him-the short man is accused of being a "little Napoleon." This might be one reason, perhaps, that Americans usually favor the tall political candidate: Feldman says that since 1900 the taller of the two major presidential candidates has always been sent to the White House,* even when the margin was Richard Nixon's one-inch advantage over Hubert Humphrey...
...responds to the immense emotional and conceptual range of the performing arts? In the 19th century, this was notably solved by Charles Garnier's design for the Paris Opera, which has a luxuriant inventiveness of detail and baroque wealth of form that are the epitome of le style Napoleon III. Clearly, Washington hoped that Stone's design would be to the Kennedy style what Garnier's was to the Second Empire...
...behind is France's Emmanuel Félix de Wimpffen, who briefly led Napoleon Ill's army during the Franco-Prussian War and deserves special mention for his ingenious plan to break through the Prussian lines. Wimpffen's scheme placed France's combat forces on one side of the enemy and their supply lines on the other, at the same time leaving Paris completely unprotected...
...Napoleon was annoyed with both his commanders. In writing of the battle he described how Marshal Ney "wavered and lost eight hours" and "forgot the troops who were not under his eye." He also referred to the "inexcusable inertia of Marshal Grouchy...
FRANCE Boondoggler's Bible "Stuck in the back of his palace," Napoleon once remarked, "the Emperor can know only what people care to tell him. The Cour des Comptes will keep him informed." To check up on financial high jinks and bureaucratic boon-dogglery in his empire, Bonaparte in 1807 revived the medieval accounting court that had been abolished during the revolution...