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...a as to a family of swindlers became strong again. Greene had borrowed ten napoleons from me before I started for Como, and I had spent above four in ... ... five in the morning, and have gone away by the early boat, leaving my ten napoleons behind me. But, unfortunately, Sophonisba had exacted a promise f... ... my resources. He certainly had not written home yet, and had taken my ten napoleons, as one friend may take a few shillings from another when he find... ...eft his own silver on his dressing-table. What could he have wanted of ten napoleons? He had alleged the necessity of paying the porters, but the few ... ...lf to incon- venience on our account.” And yet I had already lost fourteen napoleons, and given up all prospect of going to Venice! “Mr. Robinson is c... ...y last words. “Greene, my dear,” said the lady, “pay the gentleman his ten napoleons.” “Oh yes, certainly;” whereupon Mr. Greene undid one of the roll...

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...d they soon began to speak of it openly in their visits. Fifteen or twenty napoleons might do it, and the remains of the recovered trousseau would sti... ...here was a lively dispute whether we were to be put at a certain number of napoleons, or one napoleon more. A good deal was said about Mad. la Duchess... ... sell us to the wife of one of the richest agents de change in Paris, at a napoleon a piece—”the price is five and twenty francs, if you take the doze... ...ill her trembling hands did their duty, and her purse was produced. A gold napoleon promised well, but it had no fellow. Seven more francs appeared in... ...as nearly exhausted, and the stock of ready money was reduced to a single napoleon, and a little change. It was absolutely necessary to decide on som... ...ost her less than might otherwise have been the case. Its price had been a napoleon, and a napoleon, just then, was a mint of money in her eyes. Besid... ...ive for this thimble, mademoi- selle?” asked the woman, coldly. “It cost a napoleon, madame, and was made expressly for myself.” “Y ou do not expect t... ...hy of a Pocket-Handkerchief ployer, who had generously offered to give two napoleons for it. But the lace must be kept for my gala dress, and it was h... ... strangers from Paris. No, call that ten. This lace would probably bring a napoleon—yes, I think it might bring a napoleon.” Adrienne’s heart sunk wit...

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...a country across which the French armies had been drafted in the course of Napoleon’s wars, enjoyed the view before him without appearing to be surpri... ... be surprised by the many changes that swept across it. It would seem that Napoleon has extinguished in his soldiers the sensation of wonder; for an i... ... respected, although they have borne their part on every battlefield where Napoleon commanded. There had been nothing unusual in his life. He had foug... ...d thought has arrived at scepticism. When, at Schonbrunn, on May 13, 1809, Napoleon wrote the bulletin addressed to the Grand Army, then the masters o... ...romise his newly conferred dignity by asking who Medea was; he relied upon Napoleon’s character, and felt quite sure that the Emperor was incapable of... ...been brought into close relations with the energetic natures sought out by Napoleon; so he suspected that there must be some mystery in this life of o... ...ble country—it lay completely beyond the limits of social stir and change. Napoleon’s name, and his alone, had penetrated hither; he is held in great ... ...views. The people require infallibility. In- fallibility was the making of Napoleon; he would have been a god if he had not filled the world with the ... ...f the two soldiers who left the army and came back to us after the fall of Napoleon. We shall find him some- where hereabouts, if I am not mistaken. T...

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... very life. Henry the Sixth keeps a religious book stand.” “Did you ever see Napoleon, Sandy?” “Often — sometimes in the Corsican range, sometimes in ... ...ad a chance to show it. But here they take their right place, and Caesar and Napoleon and Alexander have to take a back seat. The greatest military ge... ...y hear he is going to be anywhere. Caesar, and Hannibal, and Alexander, and Napoleon are all on his staff, and ever so many more great generals; but ...

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...ion of other woollen epaulets, rank and file—that can- vas of men on which Napoleon painted the picture of the Empire. While in Siberia, the lieutenan... ...r admires; and the officers of the army might be called the stokers of the Napoleonic engine,—if, indeed, they were not its fuel. However, the Baron W... ...At seventy years of age he speculated in cottons, relying on the genius of Napoleon without comprehending that genius is quite as often beyond as at t... ...try where persecution was beginning to lay a heavy hand on the soldiers of Napoleon. He went to Havre accompanied by Dumay, whose life he had saved at... ...e says there are too many virgins! Did you ever hear the like? Then, after Napoleon’s campaigns, the lines are full of sonorous brass and flaming cann... ... heads than the number of incipi- ent marshals ever killed by the glory of Napoleon. This por- trait of Canalis (poetic through mercantile necessity) ... ...o serve her, but notoriety abashed him. To him the place of secretary to a Napoleon was far more desirable than that of the minister himself. As soon ... ...g girl, whom he’ll now go and tell that I have a heart of iron!—I, to play Napoleon when I ought to have been seraphic! Good heavens! True, I shall ha... ...oet, smiling, “no one can be great in a century prefaced by the reign of a Napoleon. We are a tribe of would-be great poets; besides, second-rate tale...

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...hing their names if they have too few,—a singular result of the Code which Napoleon never thought of. By a curious turn of fortune Clementine became, ... ...al follies had their special Pandemonium in the rue Saint-Honore and their Napoleon in Musard, a small man born expressly to lead an orchestra as nois...

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... the associations of past times are very dear. Cheops, to me, is more than Napoleon Bonaparte.” “That is more than most of your countrymen can say, at...

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...Excerpt: The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon?s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings an...

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...took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon’s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splen- dor. The trump... ...alition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train... ... it. The frequent calls to arms, which gave every treaty concluded between Napoleon and the rest of Europe the character of an armistice, left every p... ...nment in honor of the peace only that he might the better pay his court to Napoleon by his efforts to eclipse those flatterers who had been before-han... ...ing for the Emperor, whose presence the Count had promised his guests. And Napoleon would have kept his word but for the scene which had broken out th... ...had no effect on the gaiety of Comte de Gondreville’s party beyond keeping Napoleon away. The prettiest women in Paris, eager to be at the Count’s on ... ...unity seized upon by wealthy fami- lies for introducing their heiresses to Napoleon’s Praetorian Guard, in the foolish hope of exchanging their splend... ...dame de Vaudremont, a widow of two-and-twenty, burdened with four thousand napoleons a year —a woman who slips such a diamond as this on your finger,”... ...lance. Baron Martial de la Roche-Hugon was a young Provencal patronized by Napoleon; his fate might probably be some splendid embassy. He had won the ...

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...look, and magpie eyes of no particular color. A magpie eye, ac- cording to Napoleon, is a sure sign of dishonesty. “Look at So-and-so,” he said to Las... ... the be- ginning, we pay dear in the end. And by the by, did not the great Napoleon, who missed a voyage to the Indies for want of boots, say that, ‘I... ...al for a change of tactics in the Opposition camp; for, since the death of Napoleon, the liberals had ceased to resort to the dangerous expedient of c... ... that Charles XII. should make peace (much as they tried in France to make Napoleon treat for peace in 1814) and the basis of these negotiations was t... ...igures. Well, young man, do you believe in the last demi-god of France, in Napoleon? One of his generals was in disgrace all through his career; Napol... ...of the carnage. That heroic charge was not even mentioned in the bulletin. Napoleon’s coolness toward Kellermann, Fouche’s fall, and T alleyrand’s dis... ...d to be master too soon, the common fault of Frenchmen of your generation. Napoleon’s example has 146 Eve and David spoiled them all. You send in you... ... your private manners. Mme. Tallien and Mme. Beauharnais both acted alike. Napoleon married the one, and made her your Em- press; the other he would n... ...f a blot on the decorations of this great theatrical scene called society. Napoleon called this ‘washing dirty linen at home.’ The corollary follows n...

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...ce. Little Croizeau was attached to the Empire through his connection with Napoleon’s sisters. He had been their coach-builder, and had frequently dun... ...her name) for four thousand francs.’ “‘A pretty name,’ said Antonia. “Yes. Napoleon’s stepdaughter was called Hortense. I built carriages for her, as ...

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...be cities, public edifices, and ruined castles in Europe; others represented Napoleon’s battles and Nelson’s sea fights; and in the midst of these wo...

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...ith white metal buttons. A man in a spencer in the year 1844! it was as if Napoleon himself had vouchsafed to come to life again for a couple of hours... ...d that latest discovery of all—the da- guerreotype. If any man had come to Napoleon to tell him that a building or a figure is at all times and in all... ...hors were alike late. Delighted to have news of his con- ductor, he made a Napoleonic gesture, and La Cibot was admitted. The sometime commercial trav... ...you full powers.” “Well. Let me see. Now, to begin with,” said Gaudissart, Napoleon of the boulevard theatres, “to begin with, here are 266 Cousin Po...

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...He saw 128 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two the rise and fall of Napoleon. He was called upon to legis- late for America and direct her poli... ...t. It finds no model in any law from Adam till to-day. As Phillips says of Napoleon, the Nebraska act is grand, gloomy and pe- culiar, wrapped in the ...

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...days. He had done everything in the most expensive way, feeling that every napoleon wasted had been laid out on behalf Mr Crawley. But, as Mrs Toogood...

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...of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....

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...therefore a bitter enemy to the Revo- lution, and regarded the dominion of Napoleon as a curse inflicted by Providence upon France in punishment of th... ...ed, are addicted to rebellion, fomenters of trouble, implacable enemies of Napoleon the Great, his victories, his dynasty, and his government, haters ... ...s of that party which has misunderstood both the glory of H.M. the Emperor Napoleon I. and the true interests of the nation united in his august perso... ...is a young woman, a minor, not twenty years of age. Will not the Em- peror Napoleon the Great grant her life, and give her time in which to repent? Is... ...arshness. T o insure tranquil- lity at the West, now full of refractories, Napoleon believed it necessary to inspire terror. Bordin could do no more.”... ...inal who escaped over a roof, he fell into the street. Louis XVIII. shared Napoleon’s ideas as to spies and police. Ma- dame de la Chanterie is a sain... ... ventured to consider the work of the Revolution, or (if you prefer it) of Napoleon, as a whole; no one had studied the spirit of those laws, and judg... ...ed the following: Another Study of Woman La Grande Breteche Bonaparte, Napoleon The Vendetta The Gondreville Mystery Colonel Chabert Domes...

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...reface: Like many other works of mine, this playlet is a piece d?occasion. In 1905 it happened that Mr. Arnold Daly, who was then playing the part of Napoleon in The Man of Destiny in New York, found that whilst the play was too long to take a secondary place in the evening?s performance, it was too short to suffice by itself. I therefore took advantage of four days contin...

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... In 1905 it happened that Mr Arnold Daly, who was then playing the part of Napoleon in The Man of Des- tiny in New York, found that whilst the play wa...

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...empts have been little aware of the power with which they have to contend. Napoleon himself, who could cause the conscription to enter every man’s dwe... ...f commerce as opposed to that of even the sword, in the abortive policy of Napoleon to ex- clude England from the trade of the Continent. At the very ... ... in the ages of pure military and arbitrary sway. The celebrated saying of Napoleon, “L ’Europe sera, dans cinquante ans, ou republicaine ou cossaque,...

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...of the triumph of the British flag. Let us think of all that was at stake. Napoleon Bonaparte was climbing to power in France, by directing her succes... ...le English ships, not one carrying more than 74 guns, and one only 50? Why Napoleon had kept the fleet there was never known. In his usual mean way of... ...It was not a victory, but a conquest.’ Only four French ships escaped, and Napoleon and his army were cut off from home. These are the glories of our ... ...me German soldiers in the terrible winter of 1812. It was when the Emperor Napoleon I. had made his vain attempt to con- quer Russia, and had been pre... ... presence of a person so called was deemed perilous to the rising power of Napoleon. This latter Mr. Edgeworth was the father of Maria, whose works we...

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...t Kassassin was a woman: yet she was: it was I, Rosa Carmina Banger. Would Napoleon have been so brutal to women, think you, had he been a man? MITCHE...

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... with them in my time.” “They are terribly direct.” “They ‘give point’, as Napoleon commanded his cavalry to do.” “You must help me to ward it.” “They...

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...ace, the chosen of the eighteenth century, and generally the voice of its philosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood he made his bow reverentially to Goethe of Weimar; which did not check his hand from setting its mark on the sickliness of Werther....

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...hilosophy in a prosperous country. His voyage from India gave him sight of Napoleon on the rocky island. In his young manhood he made his bow rever- e... ...act is al- ready ascertained, that the armistice proposed by the Em- peror Napoleon has not been accepted, and that the war is to be continued. The Au... ...les five days before the announcement of the quarantine, while the ‘Prince Napoleon’ of Valery’s Company, passenger and merchandise steamer, which lef... ...t, as was my case in coming here from Civita V ecchia on board the ‘Prince Napoleon.’ But, although telegrams were wanting, discussions on the course ... .... Before quitting the subject of my fellow-passengers on board the ‘Prince Napoleon’ I must mention an anecdote related to me, respecting the state of...

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... the military fire of us Islanders, the great Mel, as if to show the great Napoleon what character of being a British shopkeeper really was, had, by r... ...ntolerable suspicion of everybody. I assure you, Harrington, I wouldn’t be Napoleon himself—and I have always been his peculiar admirer—to live and be... ...ench Revolution in my interior—by the way, that must have made me dream of Napoleon last night, with my lower members in revolt 358 Evan Harrington a...

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...ould only have had three mothers as well, he’d have backed himself against Napoleon. TARLETON. [impressed] Thats an idea. Thats a most inter- esting i... ...is, Mr Percival, are you really a gentleman, or are you not? PERCIVAL. Was Napoleon really a gentleman or was he not? He made the lady get out of the ... ...he Bourbons back again. That was behaving rather like a navvy. Now I, like Napoleon, am not all one piece. On occasion, as you have all seen, I can be...

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...about the first that ever did live or ever will live. Why, he whipped your Napoleon everlasting whenever he met him. He whipped everybody out of the f...

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...of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and ... ...g party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: “My respected Brother, I consent to ... ...at the matter seemed like that to con- temporaries. It naturally seemed to Napoleon that the war was caused by England’s intrigues (as in fact he said... ... seemed to members of the English Parliament that the cause of the war was Napoleon’s ambi- tion; to the Duke of Oldenburg, that the cause of the war ... ...at millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other either because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England’s policy w... ... or that French corporal to serve a second term appears as much a cause as Napoleon’s refusal to withdraw his troops beyond the Vistula and to restore... ...rporal and private also refused, there would have been so many less men in Napoleon’s army and the war could 5 Tolstoy not have occurred. Had Napoleo... ... had come from the east to the west, slaying their fellows. The actions of Napoleon and Alexander, on whose words the event seemed to hang, were as li... ...y conscription. This could not be otherwise, for in order that the will of Napoleon and Alexander (on whom the event seemed to depend) should be carri...

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... then, the celebrated colonel of the Irish Brigade, cre- ated a Marquis by Napoleon on the field of Austerlitz! “Marquis,” said I, “the country which ... ...apo- leon and the famous Joachim Murat. “We are hardly pressed, methinks,” Napoleon said sternly. “I must exercise my old trade as an artilleryman;” a... ...ere; they march alone under the accursed flag of the Saxon, whom the great Napoleon would have swept from the face of the earth, but for the fatal val... ... it fails, plunges an army into confusion. “Where is the Duke of Illyria?” Napoleon asked. “At the head of his division, no doubt,” said Murat: at whi... ...hand to his nose, and caused me almost to fall off my horse with laughter. Napoleon looked sternly at me; but at this moment the troops getting in mot... ...face of man express passion so vividly as now did the livid countenance of Napoleon. He tore off General Milhaud’s epaulettes, which he flung into Foy... ...er, married another sister. I believe he was footman in the family, before Napoleon princified him.” “No, no, he was second coachman,” Tom Protocol go... ...y minute like the juice and all. “‘What a sacrifice!’ says she; ‘it’s like Napoleon giving up Josephine. What anguish it must cause to your susceptibl... ...rom the highest military testimony in the world—I mean that of the Emperor Napoleon. In the month of March, 1817, I was passenger on board the “Prince...

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...with all his heart to establish a republic in Russia; then himself to be a Napoleon; then to be a philosopher; and then a strategist and the conqueror... ...leon; then to be a philosopher; and then a strategist and the conqueror of Napoleon? Had he not seen the possibility of, and passionately desired, the... ...nd refine- 6 War and Peace – Book Eight ment, and they pay homage to her. Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now tha... ...sovereign himself. At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon’s seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg’s territory, and the Russian No... ...ure of the Duke of Oldenburg’s territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts. “Bonaparte treats... ...he two old men. “If there were treason, or proofs of secret relations with Napoleon, they would have been made public,” he said with warmth and haste....

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...“ZAT WAS A TERRIBLE TIME, Nicolinka,” continued Karl Ivanitch, “ze time of Napoleon. He vanted to conquer Germany, ant we protected our Vaterland to z... ...e warf sein Gewehr hin und rief, ‘Pardon’—ant I let him loose. “At Wagram, Napoleon cut us open, ant surrountet us in such a way as zere vas no helpin... ... my pipe, ant speaket wis some frients of Politik, of ze Emperor Franz, of Napoleon, of ze war—ant anypoty might say his opinion. But next to us sits ...

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...to per- 151 Getting Married fection; but it doesnt fit me. I happen, like Napoleon, to prefer Mohammedanism. [Mrs George, associating Mohammedanism w...

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...d ridden half a mile on the Stratford road, looking as black and dismal as Napoleon gal- loping from the romantic village of Waterloo, he espied, a fe...

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... peasants or sergeants of the Old Guard expected the return of Monmouth or Napoleon; the countrymen of Charles of Orleans looked over the straits towa...

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...ectionist, would be glad to exchange his own protective tar iff for Louis Napoleon’s free trade one. But why discuss, on probable evidence, notorious...

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...me the sooner to the grapple of genuine converse. If they know Othello and Napoleon, Consuelo and Clarissa Harlowe, Vautrin and Steenie Steenson, they...