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...Protection" for Parma. Britain's Somerset de Chair, onetime M.P. and officer in the Royal Horse Guards, has edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
...entering the states of Parma, I.received . . . envoys . . . requesting peace and my protection. The Duke of Parma was of no political importance; the seizure of his states could be of no advantage. I left him in possession of the government, imposing on him ... all the sacrifices of which his states were capable ... It was on this occasion that I imposed a contribution of works of art for the Museum at Paris; being the first instance of the kind that occurs in modern history. Parma furnished twenty pictures chosen by the French Commissioners, amongst which was the famous Saint Jerome [by Correggio...
...hurry to get on with it, and died before he finished the job. First published as a whole in 1894, five decades after Stendhal's death. Lucien was acclaimed in France as a "third masterpiece" from the author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma...
...like, the Torinos charged their way to the national championship four times, seldom failed to pay off in the totocalcio, the national soccer pool, where 22 million Italian fans each week place their bets. When the Torinos beat Spain's championship team in Madrid last March, a husky Parma worker cried out: "The Italian Republic's first international victory." The papers picked up the phrase and made it into a national slogan...
...home ("The Little Barn") near Lausanne, Switzerland, Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, 25, wife of deposed King Michael of Rumania, posed contentedly with her three-weeks-old Princess Margrethe...