Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sommelier: "Ah, M'sieu, the cognac Napoleon 1820 is much better than the cognac of any of the Emperor's happier years!" (Curtain...
Suppose that the Emperor Napoleon- had fled to the U. S., instead of surrendering to Britons. How much would that have changed the history of the world...
...Herriot, onetime Prime Minister of France (June, 1924-April, 1925), and still, after many and many years, Mayor of the great industrial city of Lyons. Last week a brand new play by versatile Mayor Herriot was being rehearsed in Paris, and the prognostication was that it would be called: Napoleon, Empereur de I'Ameri...
...first scene shows Napoleon listening to a Danish sea captain, who offers to smuggle the defeated Emperor of the French to America...
...foreword to the program of Mayor Herriot's melodrama will recall that the incident of the Danish sea captain is historic. The real Napoleon chose surrender and St. Helena, instead of a risky, ignominious flight to America. But the stage Napoleon cries: "In a wine-cask then! Give me five years, and I shall conquer the New World...