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...eyes of all Paris were on Andre Louis Gody, a 17-foot Zouave who stands heroically in effigy beneath the Pont de 1'Alma, where Emperor Napoleon III put him nearly 100 years ago to honor a victory in the Crimea. When the river waters swirl around Gody's calves, Parisians know that the Seine is in flood. Last week the water reached well above Gody's elbows. As the floodwaters poured down into the city, raising the river crest to nearly seven meters above normal, all of Paris' quais were engulfed. The priceless works...
...badly managed ventures in printing and publishing failed. Debts of ?130,000 were charged against him. Refusing bankruptcy, Scott said: "I will not yield without a fight for it." Through the last six years of his life, he fought by writing. He produced a nine-volume life of Napoleon and in two years turned over ?40,000 to his creditors. He kept on writing bestsellers until his frail health finally cracked and he died at 61; later the sale of his works settled the last of the debts that helped kill...
...Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte-Cristo rolled off. In a suburban castle even bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before the bailiffs...
...Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible to say which was which...
...close to three-quarters of a century, hardbitten, weather-beaten Provenqal Peasant Gaston Dominici was virtually a law unto himself. Each year the world passed close to his farm along France's famed Route Napoleon, but the streams of tourists bound for the pleasure domes of the Riviera were as remote from him and his world as so many swallows in the sky. Dirt-poor as all his neighbors, Gaston lived like them close to the soil and the wind and the rain, a hard, dour patriarch who ruled his little family with an iron hand and neither asked...