Word: tricolorations
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...over Italy the streets were enveloped by revelry. From my vantage point in Milan I could see jubilant fans streaming into the streets everywhere. Italy's tricolor flag was conspicuous. Friends would spot each other from across the street, run ever to each other and embrace, crying that this was the greatest thing ever to have happened to them, and to Italy...
...episode after another illustrates the young man's strength. After an abortive attempt at insurrection on his native Corsica, Bonaparte flees the island in a dingy. The boat has no oars, but he has stolen the Tricolor from a government building and makes a jury-rigged sail out of it. Caught in a storm at sea, Napoleon at once contends with nature and embodies the destiny of France. As his boat yaws wildly amid the swells, a sign flashes on the screen saying that Napoleon is "the defiant sport of the ocean" and is being "carried to the triumphant Heights...
...adventurer. Returning to Corsica during the first year of the Revolution, he tries in vain to persuade the government to ally itself with France. Declared an outlaw, he snatches the Tricolor and rides toward the coast, chased by troops through the Corsican countryside. He clambers aboard a small boat with no oars and no sail; hoisting the Tricolor, he sets sail for France...
...deputy in the great hall is on his feet, long lines of men facing each other, shouting. As the scene becomes more riotous, the camera starts to sway, rocking back and forth with a nauseating momentum. The scene cuts back to the little man alone in the storm, his Tricolor ripped to rags, and then back again to the Convention. When the sequence draws to a close, the camera above the Hall is in full swing. Human figures barely distinguishable, the motion is sickening yet hypnotic--Gance turning Napoleon's role in history into a visual metaphor. What Gance pioneered...
...industrialized democracies are grappling with the problem of big government, but nowhere is the concept better understood than in France. Since 1800 an elite corps of Paris-appointed prefects-referred to by Napoleon as his "little emperors"-has carried the Tricolor and the edicts of the central government into each of the country's 95 départements, or districts. Under Mitterrand's reform, municipal and departmental decisions will no longer have to be submitted to the prefect for approval. Indeed, each prefect will be replaced by a Commissioner of the Republic, who will be informed only after...