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...Napoleon Bonaparte...
...Pope Pius VII crowned Napoleon Emperor; last night another Italian (well, almost) did somewhat the same for the President of Harvard...
...doubt many would-be heirs of Napoleon will object to your impertinent Milestone about the shame of General Maxime Weygand. But your judgment was quite right; the old soldier typified the weakness of his time and of his country. Compared to the now-disparaged "Anglo-Saxons," Weygand and his colleagues were made of mousse. Surely only Gallic "rationalism" combined with characteristic grandeur could induce any Frenchman today to think otherwise...
...began with the biggest real-estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thomas Jefferson a parcel of land called Louisiana. It ran from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and it was quite a bargain: 827,987 sq. mi. for $15 million. But what the U.S. owned it did not occupy. Already British traders were pressing south from Canada and Spanish raiders were roaming north from Mexico. Jefferson realized that he would have to move fast if America was to retain its new territory. He moved fast...
...perilously thin. To remark that De Gaulle tends to think and act more like a king than an elected official is both true and important. To remark the same thing for the thousandth time is perhaps amusing but rather pointless. The resemblances between De Gaulle and Louis XIV or Napoleon still make handy gimmicks for political cartoonists, but they have long since ceased to illuminate the methods and aims of French government...