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...tos with plates (like M. Quatremere’s work on Olympian Jove) to prove that Napoleon was some- thing of a Sofi in the East before he became “Emperor of... ...t lined with satin. It is one of the shawls that Selim sent to the Emperor Napoleon. It is our Imperial Guard; it is brought to the front whenever the... ...t is one of seven shawls which Selim sent, before his fall, to the Emperor Napoleon. The Empress Josephine, a Cre- ole, as you know, my lady, and very... ...ch she believed to be very fine. “It was a great favorite with the Emperor Napoleon; he took—” “A great favorite,” repeated she with her English accen...

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..., thanks to the ser- vices of the two brothers, the Baron deserved and won Napoleon’s good graces. After 1807, Baron Hulot was Com- missary General fo... ...hem by nature. This attitude in Crevel consisted in crossing his arms like Napoleon, his head showing three-quarters face, 12 Cousin Betty and his ey... ...time the Baroness had loved her husband, as Josephine in the end had loved Napoleon, with an admiring, maternal, and cow- ardly devotion. Though ignor... ...on, whom everybody regarded as one of the giants who so effectually backed Napoleon, he knew that he owed his advancement to his father’s name, positi... ... Paris! Finally, she had the honor of refusing the Emperor’s advances, for Napoleon made her a present of a diamond necklace, and always re- membered ... ...of the officers who organized the improvised troops whose rout brought the Napoleonic cycle to a close at Waterloo. In 1816 the Baron was one of the m... ...me of the levies, a sort of conscription made by Louis Philippe on the old Napoleonic soldiery. From the time when the younger branch ascended the thr... ... place in the esteem of this blameless and spotless old republican—of whom Napoleon had said, “That brave old Hulot is the most obstinate republican, ... ...At the time of Adeline’s wonderful marriage, Lisbeth had bowed to fate, as Napoleon’s brothers and sisters bowed be- fore the splendor of the throne a...

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...or had not, for there is little difference; a button that was on a coat of Napoleon’s, or on that of one of his lackeys; a bullet said to have been pi...

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...l a planet from a star, and neither knows nor cares anything about the two Napoleons. Now we seem to have breathed in such things. Why! I remember bei...

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...conduct in the field of the knights of chivalry and of the parvenue heroes of Napoleon. It all comes back, perhaps, to the extraordinarily true French ...

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...able time in the city of New Y ork; and it was heralded that, like another Napoleon, he was lying by and framing the plan of his campaign. It was tele... ...asion to refer to one or both. When he was preparing his plan of campaign, Napoleon- like, in New Y ork, as appears by two speeches I have heard him d...

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...th what happened in the open- ing half of the nineteenth century after the Napoleonic wars, and it is not an agreeable outlook for those who love the ... ... common man the protection of a code. In the United Kingdom we have had no Napoleon to over- ride the profession. It is extraordinary how complete has... ...go that Great Britain had her first lawyer Prime Minister. Through all the Napoleonic wars she was still a country ruled by great feudal landlords, an... ...Great War in the latter half of the twentieth cen- tury as there was about Napoleon at the end of the nine- teenth. The Great War is essentially undra...

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...ll times; but the fourth and grandest belonged exclusively to the war with Napoleon; and this it was which most naturally introduced Waterloo into the... ...ident to the two French invasions of Spain in our own day [1st, that under Napoleon; 2dly, that under the Due d’Angoulême]. Amongst these archives, su... ...s blow over? No; apart from any choice or preference of war on the part of Napoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the... ...ars and martial glories in reserve for the army, what interest had they in Napoleon? This was obscurely acknowledged by every- body. More or less cons... ...of the country. The “sorrow of the time” was ripening to a second harvest. Napoleon had commenced his Vandal, or rather Hunnish War with Britain, in t...

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...est. Lieutenant Commanding Charles H. B. Caldwell. Lieu- tenant Commanding Napoleon B. Harrison. Lieutenant Com- manding Albert N. Smith. Lieutenant C... ...on you. I shall assist you as far as I can to put it down. Neither you nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army while s...

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...te enmity to our name, though no Lord Wellesley had been Governor-General. Napoleon, by the same fury of hatred to us, was booked for the same fate, t... ...inian, nor the maritime Code of Oleron, nor in the Canon Law, nor the Code Napoleon, nor our own Statutes at large, nor in Jer- emy Bentham, had I rea...

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...d. And I am, too. Who are you, anyhow. Y ou talk as if you thought you was Napoleon Bonaparte.” He glared at the youth for a moment, and then strode a...

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...m Europe, except in 1813-14, for a few brief months, when they fell within Napoleon’s line of defence against the Allies. But they are interesting for...

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...found tough Britons — of whom, I dare say, he made the same complaint as Napoleon Bonaparte the great French General did, eigh teen hundred years a...

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...the reaction. All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and... ...r I (the liberal attempts at the beginning of his reign, his struggle with Napoleon, the firmness he displayed in 1812 and the campaign of 1813) flow ... ...er, while others regard it as blameworthy. The activity of Alexander or of Napoleon cannot be called useful or harmful, for it is impossible to say fo... ...nd not only shall we have no need to see exceptional ability and genius in Napoleon and Alexander, but we shall be unable to consider them to be anyth... ...pted down to the smallest detail for the purpose they had to fulfill, than Napoleon and Alexander with all their antecedents. 8 War and Peace – Epilo... ...- ited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur. One after another they hasten to di... ...es religion 11 Tolstoy for the aggrandizement of the great man. It is not Napoleon who prepares himself for the accomplishment of his role, so much a... ... invaders flee, turn back, flee again, and all the chances are now not for Napoleon but always against him. A countermovement is then accomplished fro... ...idity as the goal is approached. Paris, the ultimate goal, is reached. The Napoleonic govern- ment and army are destroyed. Napoleon himself is no long...

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...ea, and it was on this system that he had baptized his four children. Thus Napoleon represented glory and Franklin liberty; Irma was perhaps a concess... ...lt in the valley a mile and a half from Yonville. The drug- gist had taken Napoleon and Athalie to give them some exer- cise, and Justin accompanied t... ...oots. At the re- 89 Flaubert proaches with which he was being overwhelmed Napoleon began to roar, while Justin dried his shoes with a wisp of straw. ... ...o time softly closed his eyelids, and farther on the chemist, with his son Napoleon between his knees, put his hand behind his ear in order not to los... ...as beginning to cut the wax when Madame Homais appeared, Irma in her arms, Napoleon by her side, and Athalie following. She sat down on the velvet sea... ...nsieur Derozeray’s.” Emma pounced upon and opened it. It contained fifteen napoleons; it was the account. She heard Charles on the stairs; threw the g... ...he sum agreed on, you would take—” “Here it is,” she said placing fourteen napoleons in his hand. The tradesman was dumfounded. Then, to conceal his d... ...out. It went down the Rue Grand-Pont, crossed the Place des Arts, the Quai Napoleon, the Pont Neuf, and stopped short before the statue of Pierre Corn... ...ren, kindle a spark in their minds, tarnish the purity of Athalie, corrupt Napoleon. * The worker lives by working, do what he will. 214 Madame Bovar...

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... distinctly indicated. Toward the end of 1806, when all the sad details of Napoleon’s destruction of the Prussian army at Jena and Auerstadt and the s... ...eived, when our troops had already entered Prussia and our second war with Napoleon was beginning, Anna Pavlovna gave one of her soirees. The “cream o... ...ately saw that he was being tested. “I am speaking, Prince, of the Emperor Napoleon,” he re- plied. The general patted him on the shoulder, with a smi... ...day the two Emperors met. He saw the raft, decorated with mono- grams, saw Napoleon pass before the French Guards on the farther bank of the river, sa... ...xander as he sat in silence in a tavern on the bank of the Niemen awaiting Napoleon’s arrival, saw both Emperors get into boats, and saw how Napoleon-... ...ime of the meeting at Tilsit he asked the names of those who had come with Napoleon and about the uniforms they wore, and listened attentively to word... ...a supper for his French friends. The guest of honor was an aide-de-camp of Napoleon’s, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a pag... ...eon’s, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a page of Napoleon’s, a young lad of an old aristocratic French family. That same day... ...hich he came, was far from having experienced the change of feeling toward Napoleon and the French—who from being foes had sud- denly become friends—t...

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...been found from the most an- cient times, and so it is to our own day. All Napoleon’s wars serve to confirm this rule. In proportion to the defeat of ... ...hat ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, and then Napoleonic France itself. To strain the facts to fit the rules of history: ... ...the Russians, or that after Moscow there were other battles that destroyed Napoleon’s army, is impossible. After the French victory at Borodino there ... ...e of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. Napoleon felt this, and from the time he took up the correct fencing attitu... ...ithout knowing whither or why they were going. Still less did that genius, Napoleon, know it, for no one issued any orders to him. But still he and th... ...onent’s arms. At first while they were still moving along the Kaluga road, Napoleon’s armies made their presence known, but later when they reached th... ...had hurt themselves. Ney, who had had a corps of ten thousand men, reached Napoleon at Orsha with only one thousand men left, having abandoned all the... ...ritten by the historians about this campaign, and everywhere are described Napoleon’s arrange- ments, the maneuvers, and his profound plans which guid... ...eristic, in their conception, of some special animals called “heroes.” And Napoleon, escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who ...

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...re: a young man of twenty-one; not unentitled to speak; the name of him is Napoleon Buonaparte. To such height of Sublieutenancy has he now got promot... ...O my King; and I had to snatch him from their fury.’ (Norvins, Histoire de Napoleon, i. 47; Las Cases, Memoires (translated into Hazlitt’s Life of Nap... ...nder, would beat. He is a man not unqualified to judge; the name of him is Napoleon Buonaparte. (See Hist. Parl. (xvii. 56); Las Cases, &c.) And onloo... ...nd new-shaping her inorganic dust: very slowly, through centuries, through Napoleons, Louis Philippes, and other the like media and phases,—into a new... ...ts, though in small force; and with him an Artillery Major, of the name of—Napoleon Buonaparte. This Napoleon, to prove that the Marseillese have no c... ... Cartaux, Gen- eral Dugommier; above all, thou remarkable Artillery-Major, Napoleon Buonaparte! Hood is fortifying himself, victualling himself; means... ...g the guns, who has emerged several times in this History,—the name of him Napoleon Buonaparte. It is his humble opinion, for he has been gliding abou... ...hematics once, in Brienne School,—his remarkablest Pupil there was the Boy Napoleon Buonaparte. He then, not in the sweetest humour, enlisted exchangi... ...there spout wolves in sheep’s cloth- ing, masked Emigrants and Royalists! (Napoleon, Las Cases (Choix des Rapports, xvii. 398-411).) All men, as we sa...

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...dvantages were on our side. Our enor- mous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon’s, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Empe... ...s rumored that Savary had been sent to propose to Alexander a meeting with Napoleon. To the joy and pride of the whole army, a personal interview was ... ... Dolgorukov, the victor at Wischau, was sent with Savary to negotiate with Napoleon if, contrary to expectations, these negotiations were actuated by ... ...ng this general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with Napoleon. “If he weren’t afraid of a battle why did he ask for that intervi... ...ES AND SHOUTING in the enemy’s army were occasioned by the fact that while Napoleon’s proclamation was being read to the troops the Emperor himself ro... ...ng him, lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, “Vive l’Empereur!” Napoleon’s proclamation was as follows: Soldiers! The Russian army is advan... ...peace I shall conclude will be worthy of my people, of you, and of myself. Napoleon CHAPTER XIV AT FIVE IN THE MORNING it was still quite dark. The tr... ... like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. Above him ... ... on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French army, and even Napoleon himself with his staff, were not on the far side of the streams an...