Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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News came last week that Abd-el-Krim, famed "Napoleon of Morocco," now exiled by his French captors (TIME, Sept. 20) upon Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean, a remote Elba, has turned for recreation to dictating his memoirs to a secretary who is also one of his guards...
...Second French Republic and the Advent of Louis Napoleon". Professor Sanger, Harvard 6, History...
John Gabriel Borkman is a trag-edy of a Napoleon of finance who waited vainly for the world to come to his Elba in a garret, who finally stamped forth rashly to regain love and the world when it was too late. The little pauses between lines, the way an actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher...
...June, 1864, Maximilian arrived at Mexico City. From the first he was unpopular, with the clerics because he was too liberal, and with the populace, because he was a foreigner. The European troops which supported him were detested by the natives. In the summer of 1886 Napoleon III decided to withdraw his forces. Maximilian was being deserted by the man who had brought him to his position and was using him as a pawn. His wife appealed to the emperor of the French to save her husband; he refused. She went, then, on an appeal to the Pope, but here...
Thus ended Maximilian, the Mexican empire, and Napoleon's Mexican adventure...