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...Named for Désirée Clary, the fabulous "belle of Marseille," who scorned the courtship of a young lieutenant named Napoleon Bonaparte and married Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, whom Napoleon disliked but raised to the rank of a marshal. During a military crisis in 1809-10 Bernadotte was invited to become Sweden's Regent. In 1818 Bernadotte was crowned King and, with Désirée as his consort, founded the present Swedish dynasty...
...epilepsy is common-one in every 200 has it-the disease is the subject of two popular fallacies: 1) epileptics are "backward," 2) nothing can be done for epilepsy. The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius-history's epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or cured by drugs (usually bromides, phenobarbital or dilantin sodium), surgery or change in living habits...
...ships had foundered, the new world would have been discovered . . . the whole period was one of enterprise and discovery. . . ." The hero, the event-making man, does not simply find "a fork in the historical road" -he helps create the fork. He is unique, irreplaceable. Event-making men: Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon...
There are Lancashire Fusiliers, whose motto is "Bold in Everything." They got their name from fusils, which were lighter muskets than the old matchlocks. They had the honor of guarding Napoleon on St. Helena, and their Doctor Arnott attended Boney as he wasted away...
There are Grenadier Guards. In 1677 the noisy grenade was introduced into battle and each regiment got a grenadier company of picked men. Gradually the word grenadier became synonymous with elite. At Waterloo the Guards defeated Napoleon's last hope, his Imperial Guard, so decisively that they were awarded the title Grenadiers. At Ypres in 1914, 61 officers and 650 men of the Grenadiers went into action, and four officers and 150 men came...