| 单词 | Napoleon |
| 例句 | “Gentlemen,” concluded Napoleon,“I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form. Fill your glasses to the brim. Gentlemen, here is my toast: To the prosperity of The Manor Farm!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The prison had been built in 1805—in Napoleon’s day— and was even styled after the Bastille. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte, the best general in France, put an end to the revolutionary bloodbath. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He thought: tactics are old Napoleon and a lot of chivalry. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1806 he had come up with a plan: Let the English rule the seas; he, Napoleon, would insist that no country in Europe would buy from them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He could not of course know—for he, Napoleon, was only now for the first time announcing it—that the name “Animal Farm” had been abolished. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon stood sternly surveying his audience; then he uttered a high-pitched whimper. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When the cheering had died down, Napoleon, who had remained on his feet, intimated that he too had a few words to say. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Whatever happened she would remain faithful, work hard, carry out the orders that were give to her, and accept the leadership of Napoleon. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “So you finally got him. Nappie—short for Napoleon, isn’t it?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Haiti was lost to the French, and Napoleon’s ambitions for an empire in the New World withered away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon, with the dogs following him, now mounted on to the raised portion of the floor where Major had previously stood to deliver his speech. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon called the animals together immediately and in a terrible voice pronounced the death sentence upon Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z France at that time was flooded with Egyptian artifacts, stolen by Napoleon and later made available to Western scholars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon produced no schemes of his own, but said quietly that Snowball’s would come to nothing, and seemed to be biding his time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon appeared to change countenance, and sharply ordered Boxer to let the dog go, whereat Boxer lifted his hoof, and the dog slunk away, bruised and howling. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When Napoleon was calculating how to get sugar without having to fight the English fleet, a couple of beet-sugar factories had begun operating around Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon was a large, rather fierce-looking Berkshire boar, the only Berkshire on the farm, not much of a talker, but with a reputation for getting his own way. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z A score of genuinely brilliant military leaders who also confronted a superior enemy force—Hannibal, Robert E. Lee, and Napoleon come to mind—were eventually defeated because they presumed that victory meant winning battles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They decided to check on Nasser’s house along the way, so they went up Fontainebleau to Napoleon. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He passed a battery of Southern artillery, mixed Napoleons and Parrots, served by wagons stamped USA. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not leave his presence when he was there, nor remove her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon’s, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z “You know when people are crazy they think they’re somebody important—like Napoleon or something.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He could head up to Napoleon and St. Charles and ask the officers and aid workers there how he could get out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Top branches rubbed together now and then, their Up up ahead that was singing about Napoleon’s army of fifty thousand men climbing up a hillside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “No more delays, comrades!” cried Napoleon when the footprints had been examined. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation were known, and he decided to make use of Mr. Whymper to spread a contrary impression. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z His two slogans, “I will work harder” and “Napoleon is always right,” seemed to him a sufficient answer to all problems. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Snowball and Napoleon were by far the most active in the debates. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The animals had their breakfast, and then Snowball and Napoleon called them together again. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Back in England, Clarkson and his friends saw their chance: France was no longer in the midst of a revolution, and Napoleon’s sugar dreams had failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Now Napoleon’s France followed in the footsteps of the English. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing ot Beasts of England, all the animals dispersed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out, and in a terrible voice Napoleon demanded whether any other animal had anything to confess. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Englishman said again, “Bottled up in Africa! No more trouble with Napoleon...I hope.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, dear, but he should be back soon. Said Mr. Napoleon sent a dactyl bout something urgent and he had to rush off.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Yes,” was all he said, but he turned and strained his eyes to see the island which a greater usurper than even Napoleon now made interesting in his sight. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon’s surgeon, the baron Dominique Jean Larrey, performed the first operation. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It was well past five o’clock when David, Cymbeline, and Louis Napoleon walked through the door of the back room arm in arm like they’d been friends their whole lives. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And then I send forth more Napoleons and Lincolns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z While retreating from Moscow, Napoleon’s army was whittled down to almost nothing by a harsh winter and an equally harsh Russian army. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It is an honor. Your performance of Lady Anne was breathtaking. The name’s Louis Napoleon. No relation to the diminutive temperamental French emperor, I’m afraid.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Napoleon himself, attended by his dogs and his cockerel, came down to inspect the completed work; he personally congratulated the animals on their achievement, and announced that the mill would be named Napoleon Mill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the sight of Napoleon, on all fours, delivering orders to Whymper, who stood on two legs, roused their pride and partly reconciled them to the new arrangement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For the time being, the young pigs were given their instruction by Napoleon himself in the farmhouse kitchen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Alexander was posting some Napoleons there, waved as he rode by. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon, who seldom moved out of a walk, raced ahead of them all. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z "No army has ever won Russia, not even Frederick the Great or Napoleon." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I am writing these words in 1984, but this grandfather of mine was born, believe it or not, in 1820, shortly after Wellington had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I consoled myself that I had three more days to think about it, brooding in my tent like Napoleon. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “We have a few other agents embedded down there, including Napoleon. If they hear you’re in trouble, they’ll get to you. The hand sign is this...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Napoleon was seemingly in an impossible bind, but he found a way out of the sugar trap. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At every few steps Napoleon stopped and snuffed the ground for traces of Snowball’s footsteps, which, he said, he could detect by the smell. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As his last act upon earth, Comrade Napoleon had pronounced a solemn decree: the drinking of alcohol was to be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There was only one candidate, Napoleon, who was elected unanimously. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At lunchtime in the large gray concrete playground, he would stand in the center of a crowd of big boys and ask, “Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Louis Napoleon stood up and shook his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A rumour went round that Snowball had after all contrived to introduce poison into Napoleon’s food. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The general feeling on the farm was well expressed in a poem entitled Comrade Napoleon, which was composed by Minimus and which ran as follows: Friend of fatherless! Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z A few moments later, the door creaked open and Louis Napoleon peeked out and looked around. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It had become usual to give Napoleon the credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It was well seasoned, and Whymper had advised Napoleon to sell it; both Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick were anxious to buy it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Two centuries ago, Napoleon wrote that “a general never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy clearly, and never knows positively where he is.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon was thrilled, and he ordered the French to begin planting thousands of acres of beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Or when he asks over and over even after you say white, "What color was Napoleon's white horse?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z By the evening, however, Napoleon appeared to be somewhat better, and the following morning Squealer was able to tell them that he was well on the way to recovery. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba lost patience and returned to his country prepared to ignore the problem of his height, since all great politicians in history had been small, from Napoleon to Hitler. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also announced that the gun would be fired every year on Napoleon’s birthday, as well as on the other two anniversaries. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon quickly recognized how important sugar was to his nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Partly by happenstance, the U.S. geneticist James Neel and the U.S. anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon flew into Yanomami country in the midst of the epidemic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Adams suspected that Hamilton, whom he had formerly distrusted and now utterly loathed, saw himself as an American Napoleon, poised to declare martial law and present himself as the available savior. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Throughout the whole period of his seeming friendship with Pilkington, Napoleon had really been in secret agreement with Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Finally Napoleon raised his trotter for silence and announced that he had already made all the arrangements. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In these days Napoleon rarely appeared in public, but spent all his time in the farmhouse, which was guarded at each door by fierce-looking dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The young men had seen a temporary medical staging ground set up at the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles, and they agreed that they would deliver the passengers there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Napoleon was now never spoken of simply as “Napoleon.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then there was a deafening roar.The pigeons swirled into the air, and all the animals, except Napoleon, flung themselves flat on their bellies and hid their faces. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big barn, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When the Haitians defeated the French armies, Napoleon lost control of the world’s most productive sugar islands and with it his dream of great sugar profits. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Napoleon had popularized the word, which had first been used by the French philosophe Destutt de Tracy, whom Jefferson had read and admired enormously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Louis Napoleon shouted, and gunshots rang out from either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Napoleon ended his speech with his usual cry of “Long live Animal Farm!” and after the singing of Beasts of England the animals were dismissed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon himself appeared at the meeting on the following Sunday morning and pronounced a short oration in Boxer’s honour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon’s cunning. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon was hesitating between the two, unable to make up his mind. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Remember Napoleon’s dream of a French sugar empire and how the victorious Haitians destroyed it? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Napoleon was by this time on slightly better terms with the other farmers than before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I know guys named after Mussolini and Napoleon. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Napoleon was so gratified that he left his place and came round the table to clink his mug against Mr. Pilkington’s before emptying it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon did, though, need money to pay for his wars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Neither have we been discussing Napoleon’s white horse in the front seat,” Dedd reminded him, pushing him gently away. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They discussed the strategy of Napoleon, the theories of Jomini, the women of Richmond. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “All the good boxers have names. There’s Napoleon, the Belfast Spider, the Fighting Blacksmith, the Trojan Giant, and His Fistic Holiness. The last one’s my favorite. I wish I’d thought of it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice as their own special contribution towards the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Bonaparte Napoleon's wife. You know, the one who said, ‘A woman laughing is a woman conquered.’ It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Then both hands would charge faster and faster up and down the keyboard, armor clashing, bugles blowing, and by the end, I knew it didn’t matter whether Napoleon ever fought again or not. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never mind the milk, comrades!” cried Napoleon, placing himself in front of the buckets. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After this they went back to the farm buildings, where Snowball and Napoleon sent for a ladder which they caused to be set against the end wall of the big barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As a result, Napoleon had no use for the land in North America he had so recently obtained from Spain. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon’s papers. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon decreed that there should be a full investigation into Snowball’s activities. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For the moment even Napoleon seemed at a loss. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As I went out, Napoleon barked at me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The line was a marvelous thing to see: thousands of men and horses and the gleaming Napoleons, row on row, and miles of wagons and shells. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the emergence of Napoleon as dictator, the French government, eventually called the Directory, was a misnamed coalition of ever-shifting political factions inherently incapable of either coherence or direction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Even in the farmhouse, it was said, Napoleon inhabited separate apartments from the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honour at the head of the table. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Boxer and Clover al-ways carried between them a green banner marked with the hoof and the horn and the caption, “Long live Comrade Napoleon!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon would have whipped the Austrians on the plains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Napoleon now called upon them to confess their crimes. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “The Count of Monte Cristo. Another great Dumas book. An innocent man is betrayed, accused of treason, imprisoned, and after many long years, escapes. Napoleon, jealous of General Dumas, sent him to jail.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Like all of Napoleon’s speeches, it was short and to the point. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But Squealer counselled them to avoid rash actions and trust in Comrade Napoleon’s strategy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Who had that man been, at Napoleon and St. Charles, who had said he would send help to the Williams couple? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The Austrian army was created to give Napoleon victories; any Napoleon. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I had dawdled too long and it was getting cold and I had visions of Napoleon at Moscow and the Germans at Stalingrad. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z On the third Sunday after Snowball’s expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The animals formed themselves into two factions under the slogans, “Vote for Snowball and the three-day week” and “Vote for Napoleon and the full manger.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing anything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of the Windmill, and that Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Did the soldier really mean that Zeitoun should paddle all the way to the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles when the soldier could simply call another unit on his walkie-talkie? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was given out that the pasture was exhausted and needed re-seeding; but it soon became known that Napoleon intended to sow it with barley. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Any more than Napoleon pulled a trigger at Austerlitz. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Throughout the spring and summer they worked a sixty- hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Admittedly the enemy on this occasion was not Napoleon. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I hadn’t seen the special and didn’t care much about Napoleon. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Mr. Napoleon is still looking into the situation at the Colored Orphan Asylum,” David said after a few moments of silence. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Boxer and Clover pulled the wagon w'hich served as a hearse, and Napoleon himself walked at the head of the procession. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He announced that, by a special decree of Comrade Napoleon, Beasts of England had been abolished. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But the unification of Europe has resisted the efforts of such determined conquerors as Charlemagne, Napoleon, and Hitler; even the Roman Empire at its peak never controlled more than half of Europe’s area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon himself was not seen in public as often as once in a fortnight. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Boxer, who had now had time to think things over, voiced the general feeling by saying:“If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “Dumas’s dad was the greatest general in Napoleon’s army.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Nasser’s house was at the corner of Napoleon and Galvez, and he wanted to see if anything could be salvaged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Louis Napoleon had led them up a flight of stairs, down a corridor past a room alive with the thunk, hum, and tremble of a printing press, then up another flight and then another. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He paddled to the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles, his shoulders aching. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z David Ballantine, Louis Napoleon, and a group of other Vigilance Committee agents had set up a barricade with some shipping crates at the steam chimney and were taking potshots over the top. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And when the nine dogs of Napoleon’s own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men’s flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At about half-past nine Napoleon, wearing an old bowler hat of Mr. Jones’s, was distinctly seen to emerge from the back door, gallop rapidly round the yard, and disappear indoors again. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He and Louis Napoleon pulled up chairs, spun them around, and sat backward in them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z After Napoleon’s defeat the papacy reclaimed the files, but many disappeared on the return journey, probably sold for recycling to cover expenses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The four young pigs who had protested when Napoleon abolished the Meetings raised their voices timidly, but they were promptly silenced by a tremendous growling from the dogs. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It was surmounted by a portrait of Napoleon, in profile, executed by Squealer in white paint. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for Napoleon, his plan to exclude English products failed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To appreciate what has been lost in twenty-three centuries, imagine a certain city in north-central France—and take away the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Sorbonne, the Arc de Triomphe, Napoleon’s Tomb, and Notre Dame. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Marat aspired to liberty; the outcome was Napoleon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes, but they had plenty of country. If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindisi.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z McWhorter figured it was another prank phone call, exclaiming, "Yesterday, Napoleon called!" Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z All the pigs were in full agreement on this point, even Snowball and Napoleon. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Surely, he cried indignantly, whisking his tail and skipping from side to side, surely they knew their beloved Leader, Comrade Napoleon, better than that? Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They were the same four pigs as had protested when Napoleon abolished the Sunday Meetings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At a Queens strip joint called the Playhouse, Pitkin—a short, pugnacious, extroverted officer who some felt had a Napoleon complex—ran into an ex-con in the men’s room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The animals could not face the terrible explosions and the stinging pellets, and in spite of the efforts of Napoleon and Boxer to rally them, they were soon driven back. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon’s own creation. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The dogs flanked the procession and at the head of all marched Napoleon’s black cockerel. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For the young Napoleon, who was exceptionally good at mathematics, the problems which had defeated the great Torricelli were by the 1780s mere school exercises—the school, of course, being the École Militaire. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the superior quality of Napoleon’s mind, said Squealer, was shown in the fact that he trusted nobody, not even Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Boxer looked at Napoleon to know whether he should crush the dog to death or let it go. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon snuffed deeply at them and pronounced them to be Snowball’s. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Forward, comrades!’ he whispered.‘Forward in the name of the Rebellion. Long live Animal Farm! Long live Comrade Napoleon! Napoleon is always right.’Those were his very last words, comrades.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Instead, he’d go to the piano and pound out the one piece he knew by heart, “Napoleon’s Last Charge.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Even if Napoleon could find a place to grow cane, he could not get it past the English ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But just at this moment Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “They haven’t exactly been discussing Napoleon’s white horse in the back seat!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Napoleon once said, ‘The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, as someone once said, Napoleon was only a madman who thought he was Napoleon. Summer’s hidden gems, selected by Michael Dirda 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Dating from 1860 and the reign of Napoleon III, it plays the role of City Hall in “Marseille” but now is home to the Chamber of Commerce. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “This small leaf represents the grandeur of the story of Napoleon,” Osenat said. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Napoleon’s cavalry had been badly mauled at Borodino, but it was the six weeks in Moscow that largely destroyed it as a fighting force as well as decimated the artillery horses. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z But it was briefly reintroduced by Napoleon Bonaparte, and not banned from France’s colonies until 1848. Review | Two revelatory exhibitions upend our understanding of black models in art 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “War and Peace,” Tolstoy’s great novel of Napoleon’s campaign in Russia, haunts this book. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z He wanted viewers not simply to watch “Napoleon,” but also to become participants in a revolution of his making. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z But a bust of Napoleon here, once owned by Jefferson, is a reminder that Napoleon was the ghostly presence at this war, without whom it might never have happened. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z For most of them, Venice’s history ended in 1797 when Napoleon conquered the Serene Republic. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z He managed to stay in business from the 1780s until the 1820s, as Napoleon rose and fell twice. Picking Apart 18th-Century French Furniture to Detect Forgery 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Converted into a prison by Napoleon, Fontevraud was reborn with another vocation in 2014, as an arts hub and all-encompassing tourist destination that’s one of my favorite getaways in the Loire Valley. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Theresa Rebeck’s assertively glib “Poor Behavior,” at Primary Stages, takes place at a weekend getaway — provided your idea of a getaway is Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Evan Cabnet Directs Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Poor Behavior’ 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z He had known war personally, fighting against Napoleon as part of a Prussian regiment, and for Greek independence from the Turks as part of an international brigade in 1820. 'Lincoln's Code': the man who wrote the rules of war 2012-11-14T20:37:05Z In the early 1800s, the French sent diplomatic notes to England demanding that it censor cartoonists who drew caricatures of Napoleon Bonaparte. Why the baroque politeness of diplomatic notes is what the world needs now 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z British authorities wrote Napoleon that he would be confined there to prevent him “from disturbing the repose of Europe.” Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z The girls desecrated the cathedral that was originally built in memory of those who lost their lives liberating Europe from Napoleon. Pussy Riot: One defendant freed 2012-10-10T19:24:13Z Nods to France tend to be subtle — a portrait of Napoleon here, some wicker cafe chairs there. Review | Brasserie Liberté adds some French twists to Georgetown 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z It portrays the Countess of Castiglione, Napoleon III’s mistress, known for her beauty and for her habit of having herself photographed in various guises and settings. Review: ‘Grand Illusions’ Showcases Deceptive Photography 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In copies the artist and his studio made afterward Napoleon wears a red cape, but here, in the original, he’s wrapped in a mantle of gold, starchy and solid in the Alpine air. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z “Napoleon shook his head. ‘Muslims be repeatin’ these lyrics — and the angels are recording.’ ” Books of The Times: ‘Rebel Music,’ by Hisham D. Aidi 2014-04-23T21:51:25Z But Napoleon belonged to something much closer to the spirit of the American Revolution than the Russians did. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “Abel Gance — he was fabulous at moving the camera,” Mr. Brown said, referring to the director of “Napoleon,” the 1927 silent classic. The Invention That Shot Rocky Up Those Steps 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He then made a Napoleon film starring Rod Steiger and ignored the implications of the title — Waterloo. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z Here, in the understated, euphemistic language of the duel, the world’s greatest detective and the Napoleon of Crime arrange to meet for the last time. The literary history of duels, those absurdly formal fights to the death 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Sugar scribbles something on his pad, possibly adding finishing details to a sculpture he's commissioning of himself sitting astride a mighty lion dressed as Napoleon, "Hmmmmmgh," he hmmmmghs, the most dismissive collection of phlegm ever. Grace Dent's TV OD: The Apprentice 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z The oil painting, at nearly 7 feet tall, depicts Borghese, who was a prominent arts patron and the brother-in-law of Napoleon. Frick Buys Its First Painting Since 1991 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z "There are lots of original buildings constructed in the time of Napoleon I, between 1805 and 1815. And this one here is a little more recent, dating from 1890," David said. Paris's 222-year-old zoo calls for help to restore historic building 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Lunching within the yellowed walls of Napoleon House, I watch the bartender pour two Pimm’s Cups at a time, moving precisely through steps that result in the best version of the drink I’ve had. In New Orleans, terrific cocktails never went out of fashion Though many of the furnishings were nicked by Napoleon, the rooms themselves have held up remarkably. 36 Hours: Salzburg, Austria 2011-12-14T18:10:20Z The 1902-vintage Winchester office building has recently been repurposed as the Hotel Napoleon Memphis with 58 crisp rooms. 36 Hours in Memphis 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Hundreds of variants of Solitaire exist, each with a curious name tied to a range of references from Athena to Napoleon. In defense of Solitaire, the “perfect game”: Mindfulness, video games and the importance of downtime 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Napoleon also played a role in some important legal cases, including Lemmon v. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z There wasn’t a spotlight shining on an astronaut, swashbuckling pirate or Napoleon costume. | Lanvin Wins! 2011-03-05T21:23:29Z With the fate of Europe hanging in the balance, Broers ends “Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny” with his hero on the march, leading the Grande Armée against a vast coalition of enemies. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But when Napoleon and his retinue arrived, they found it a great disappointment. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z It was the work of Napoleon Sarony and was taken to publicise Wilde's writer's tour of America. Irish poets' work sells for £130,000 2013-05-10T11:59:26Z Unlike Tolstoy he gives considerable space to the equally interesting and significant events of 1813 when Alexander fought Napoleon in Central Europe. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z He's tired of the adventurous life working for Napoleon Bonaparte and wants to retire in luxury. Review: Ethan Gage returns in `Emerald Storm' 2012-05-08T20:02:11Z More stencils followed: A second mural reworked Jacques-Louis David’s painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps on horseback. In Paris, Banksy Spreads a Trail of Graffiti, and Rumors 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The island of Elba is the retreat where Napoleon ended up. Mar-a-Lago: Where Donald Trump learned to be king 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Because Hector is about as expansionist as Napoleon, only more merciless. Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And it has not occupied the Mediterranean island of Malta since 1798, thanks to Napoleon. A Black-Tie Ball Fit for a Knight 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z She showed me some of her stamps, categorized according to subject, including 18th-century balloons, the Paris Métro, tennis, Napoleon Bonaparte, Christmas, Freemasonry and the Statue of Liberty. In Paris, Passion Battles the Decline of Stamp Collecting 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Our guides are Marianne, the allegorical embodiment of France’s republican ideals, and Napoleon Bonaparte, the actual embodiment of the nation’s imperial ambitions. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z But no character he played was as popular as Napoleon Solo. Robert Vaughn, Who Starred as Napoleon Solo in ‘Man From U.N.C.L.E,’ Dies at 83 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Get the Recipe Recipes by Southern Living Test Kitchens / Compiled by Mallory Daugherty Strawberry Napoleons This unique grilled dessert is perfect for your next outdoor party. 25 Indulgent Strawberry Treats 2010-03-22T21:31:00Z The list also features the rolling hills and towering mountains of the Lake District and the remote Atlantic island of St Helena, where Napoleon died in 1821. What's on your list for world heritage status? 2011-03-22T15:06:00Z T-shirts and cheeky accessories emblazoned with images of Napoleon are sold under the appropriate brand name Empire. A Perfect Day in ... Ajacci 2011-11-17T06:15:00Z Unusually, the book begins with a dictator's overthrow, when farmer Jones is defeated, then shows Napoleon the pig's slow progress towards becoming his replacement. Culture flash: fallen dictators 2011-08-24T21:31:01Z Including Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony on this series ventured close to cliché: In an oft-told story, Beethoven, flush with anti-monarchical fervor, dedicated the symphony to Napoleon, only to void that gesture after Napoleon declared himself emperor. Review: A Symphony Talks Politics 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Far beyond French borders, he’s a charismatic figure: Just look at Iowa’s latest tourism campaign, starring a bike-riding Napoleon who regrets selling the state as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Napoleon himself is more forceful — still irritating but less hangdog. Television Review: ?Napoleon Dynamite,? Animated Series on Fox - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z Napoleon said Larrey was “the finest man I’ve known,” and Tolstoy has him assessing Prince Andrew’s critical injuries in “War and Peace.” Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z Moyle reinforces the significance of French politics for British artists: the revolution, Napoleon and periods of peace between Franco-British wars variously allowing them to see art at the Louvre for the first time. An illuminating biography of J.M.W. Turner 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Ironically, it was Napoleon’s depredations that helped bring Crivelli to the attention of a wider world. Review: Once Scattered, Crivelli Is Back in Milan 2010-03-21T14:40:00Z So before flights Ms. Napoleon worries: Will he dash through the metal detector without stopping? Testing Autism and Air Travel 2012-10-28T04:47:23Z It is directed by Jerusha Hess, who - along with her husband Jared - directed surprise 2004 hit Napoleon Dynamite, and has a mainly British cast and crew, and was filmed on location in the UK. Stars shine brightly at Sundance 2013-01-20T12:19:57Z The section on Napoleon begins by observing “the army of wet nurses who left their babies at home and went to sell their breast milk in the capital.” Books of the Times: ?Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris,? by Graham Robb 2010-04-27T21:30:00Z “Immortals,” as the academy’s inductees are called, usually wear a classic interpretation of the green-embroidered uniform first required under Napoleon. A Glittering Honor for a Master of Glass 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z "But it's a nice humorous side-effect to have something French in a place that celebrates victory over Napoleon." Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z The most successful, of course, was Napoleon Bonaparte, who was born in the island’s capital, Ajaccio. Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Then, because of a series of untimely events — including the advent of sound — the full “Napoleon” disappeared, becoming one of cinema’s most elusive objects of desire, alongside Erich Von Stroheim’s nearly 10-hour version of “Greed.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z They're Napoleon and the rest of us are too insane to realise. Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z “This small leaf represents the grandeur of the story of Napoleon,” Osenat said. Golden leaf cut from Napoleon's crown goes under hammer in France 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z My feelings for this greatest of Neoclassical artists, who spun Roman precedents into propaganda for the Reign of Terror and then for Napoleon, have cycled over many years between adulation and queasiness. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Others come as a shock: the kettledrums that sound like cannon fire; the piercing insistence of a piccolo that seems to have been requisitioned from Napoleon’s army. Music Review: John Eliot Gardiner Leads Ensembles at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-19T22:57:38Z The building dates from 1812 and was the residence of a New Orleans mayor, Nicholas Girod, who offered it to Napoleon when he went into exile. New York Botanical Garden Adds a Restaurant 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Until it became redundant in the 1870s, there had been troops at Tower Y, as well as coastguards after Napoleon's defeat. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z Zeeshaan says he takes inspiration from Napoleon; he's here to conquer. The Apprentice – TV review 2013-05-07T21:00:02Z It was not just cartoonists who put Napoleon in his place. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z Entry to Napoleon III’s study is included with ticket purchases for a guided tour, and ticketing for musical events varies and is updated on the chateau’s website. In Transit Blog: After Renovation, a Busy Summer at Fontainebleau 2013-07-17T16:51:29Z In the text - which announces that his commanders are evacuating Moscow - Napoleon laments his army's plight, asking for assistance to replenish his forces and the ravaged cavalry, which saw thousands of horses die. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z Napoleon underestimated the Russian winter and the hardiness of the Russian peasant even before he met defeat at Waterloo. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Napoleon was 5 foot 7 inches tall, an average height for a man in his day, scholars say. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The Napoleon code, used only for top-secret letters when the French emperor was far from home, aimed to stop enemies from intercepting French army orders. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z The painting may have been in Spain in the 18th century, he said, because the family descends from an officer in Napoleon’s army who may have acquired it there. Art Dealer Says Painting Found in French Attic Is a Caravaggio 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The suppressed religious context of the Hesses’ first feature, “Napoleon Dynamite,” was obvious to me when I saw it in first run. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Sofas that Cattaneo designed and upholstered in Rubelli velvet gathered in an intimate sitting area, while over by the window went two Napoleon III chairs from Liguria. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z “I never thought I would get the painting,” Marandel said of the last work that David completed in Paris, before the defeat of Napoleon forced the artist into exile. Auction battles and encounters with royalty: LACMA curator looks back at 24 years of adventures 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z They speculate that he might be a kidnapper after the governor’s daughter, or even the escaped Napoleon in disguise — anything but an inconspicuous crook with nothing but money in mind. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The acting is inspired, in part because the casting was inspired, from Anthony Hopkins, as Pierre, to David Swift, as a pint-sized, swaggering Napoleon. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Napoleon napped during the afternoon, possibly weakened by a stomach bug. Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers "I've been developing a Stanley Kubrick screenplay for a miniseries – not for a motion picture – about the life of Napoleon," he said. Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries 2013-03-04T12:02:02Z It is possible to think of Nietzsche’s Übermensch as a solitary walker responsible to no one but himself, but just as likely he was imagining a new Caesar, Borgia or Napoleon. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z In the early 1800s, Napoleon’s dream of a French empire in North America was fading. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z And then if I think of when I went to Sundance, I was there with "Napoleon Dynamite." Ad agencies spurn innovative documentary 2011-01-24T01:49:41Z An elegant and authoritative account of the peace tactics of Napoleon, based on sources in various languages, soon appeared, followed by the popular, yet strangely outdated, polemic against the Whig interpretation. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z She ended up with over 300 names, a who’s-who of 19th-century icons: composers like Rossini, Liszt and Schumann; novelists like George Sand, Victor Hugo and Ivan Turgenev, her lover; Giuseppe Mazzini and Napoleon III. A Queen of 19th-Century Opera Gets New Attention 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Ellis thinks his injury helped him understand the Napoleon character in different way. Playwright's broken arm drama 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Abstracted, most elements of the modern suit would have been familiar to Napoleon. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Napoleons of the virtual boulevards, they are locked in an escalating battle for power — and your wallet. Death of Retail? 2017 Was All About the Empire of Luxury E-Tail 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But the irritable composer — who would later remove the dedication to Napoleon from his Third Symphony — eventually took it back. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the heart of a novel about one of Russia’s greatest military victories does not rest with Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I or the army commander, General Kutuzov. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” can inspire those who fear Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Only Goethe seemed determined to stay above it all, even to the point of ignoring the relentless advance of Napoleon’s army. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Napoleon Blonaparte: French leader famed for unsuccessfully using IEDs at Waterloo. Style Invitational: Tabby Road — write a song about cats or other critters 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps the main question the book should be addressing, by this account, is not how the British eventually managed to give Napoleon a bloody nose, but why it took them so long. The Savage Storm by David Andress - review 2012-12-06T10:00:01Z Ingres shows Napoleon looking back at us, enthroned like the god Jupiter, his face waxy and spookily pale. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z New in paperback, this historical novel spins a yarn about a daring plan to thwart Napoleon Bonaparte’s ambitions to conquer Europe. A painter’s way with color, a swashbuckling adventure 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z "Russia Against Napoleon" achieves that rare thing of taking a story we thought we knew and recounting it in a new and more convincing light. 'Russia Against Napoleon': A new book for fans of military history 2010-05-26T23:57:00Z It comes after a three-year layoff, except for a Christmas special last year, and begins with an episode called “The Six Thatchers,” based on the Conan Doyle story “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.” Review: ‘Sherlock’ Returns, Tracking a Smasher of Thatcher Busts 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z As Napoleon invades Russia, massive casualties are accompanied by social and institutional breakdown. Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” can inspire those who fear Trump’s America 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Other happy memories of the huge collection of Ladybird books I amassed include an apocalyptic scene of Drake setting fire to Cadiz, and bloodsoaked biographies of Nelson and Napoleon. The violence of Ladybirds | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-31T11:50:00Z Beethoven originally intended the “Eroica” as a paean to Napoleon, but when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, the composer recast the work as a portrait of an idealized hero who would fight tyranny. Music Review: The Modern Beethoven Ends at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-03-16T21:15:58Z With an escort of some 70 people, Napoleon occupied the local military commander’s residence, a stately structure that towers over the island’s traditional, low-slung dwellings. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In 1806, Napoleon’s army stopped in Dubrovnik in need of provisions and ended up staying for nearly a decade. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z “Do This and You’ll Be Welcome Anywhere” — is bolstered by testimonials that range from, say, Napoleon, an emperor in France, to C.M. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Kehinde Wiley’s painted portraits recasting Black figures in Western European scenes, such as in “Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps,” often strike a celebratory note. At These American Museums, You Can Travel the World 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The island’s museum about Napoleon is open seasonally from 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. and 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z According to the Bookseller it will be published in time to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat in 2015. The top five London Book Fair deals 2013-04-18T12:23:49Z The publication of “My Uncle Napoleon” came in the early 1970s, as literacy rates raced upward along with global oil prices, fueling the shah’s modernization efforts in the country. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z No producers or theatrical companies are officially attached yet, and no actors have been announced to play Napoleon, Snowball and their oppressed and corrupted barnyard pals. 'Animal Farm' Musical May Arrive Before Pigs Fly 2010-07-23T16:40:00Z Yet Napoleon also erred in invading Spain in 1808 and repeatedly picked unnecessary fights with the Austrians and Prussians. Flawed sparkler 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Yet it is he, a pinch-faced, powder-wigged 19th century gentleman scholar from Yorkshire, who revives the practice of magic, gives the crown victory over Napoleon and becomes the chief, and only, magician in Britain. Review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Brings the Old-Time Magic 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Inside, a golden football helmet with a fleur-de-lis overlooks portraits of Napoleon, hand thrust inside waistcoat, and the blues pianist James Booker, called the Bayou Maharajah, in eye patch and halo. Cajun, Far From Home, at the Gumbo Bros 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He worked a succession of bar jobs before being hired at the Napoleon House. A Permanent Port of Call Tending Bar 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The collapse of France’s armies in an ill-chosen war with Prussia a year earlier had finished off Napoleon III’s authoritarian Second Empire. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In Italy, he planned to undertake an ambitious project: creating an updated version of Napoleon’s porcelain dinner set that would draw on his past as a graffiti artist. For Artists in Need, a New Coalition Brings $11.6 Million in Speedy Relief 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Napoleon's medics had their own uniform and travelled in special carriages. Medic, Letters from the Trenches, The Pacific and Sandstealers 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z Is it more profound than, say, Banksy’s pastiche on a Paris wall of an equestrian in the same pose as Napoleon, but wearing a burqa? Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Think Bond berating a barmaid for stirring not shaking his Martini, or Napoleon Solo throwing a tantrum because his sports car is the wrong shade of midnight blue. Life of spy: the return of Archer 2013-07-12T13:00:00Z Pei’s entrance pyramid and squirm in formation in front of Jacques-Louis David’s gigantic “Coronation of Napoleon.” At the Louvre, Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Both Outsiders and Heirs 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z As Broers stresses, he writes not only about how Napoleon “got power, but also about what he did with it.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z And then there’s Jacques-Louis David’s towering, storm-racked equestrian image of Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps, looking very far away indeed, in both miles and mood, from its home in Versailles. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The formula, which may be roughly stated as dragging the past into the present, is simple and tested: You have Cleopatra saying, "Oh, no, she didn't," or Napoleon muttering, "Well, that was awkward." 'Galavant' musical comedy on ABC is worth the short journey 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z “Superbad” was surrounded by cohorts — all of the Frat Pack films, “Napoleon Dynamite.” ‘Superbad’ & Me 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Because “Moriarty” takes place long before Holmes and Moriarty do damp, climactic battle in Conan Doyle’s 1883 story “The Final Problem,” its protagonist has not yet become the “Napoleon of crime.” The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Napoleon may have conquered and slaughtered, but he also electrified, and now that chapter was over. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Other choice tidbits include Kubrick’s comparison of the work of a film director to the precision Napoleon applied to military strategy. ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Beethoven, who sympathized with the ideals of the French Revolution and idealized Napoleon, had planned to name the symphony after him. Barber?s Adagio Stands Up to Acoustic Retaliation 2011-05-31T14:00:05Z The Chateau de Versailles will be lending the famous "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" painting by Jacques-Louis David. Louvre Abu Dhabi to receive loan of 300 works from French museums 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z After three days, Napoleon chose a dignified exit, rather than risk a daring sea escape like the one he’d made from the island of Elba, off the coast of Tuscany. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But Romanticism had a public, progressive side, too, in garden cemeteries like Père Lachaise and new parks commissioned by Napoleon III. Art Review: At Morgan Library, Glories of Nature, Tamed by Man 2010-06-03T21:31:00Z It was only under Napoleon that French became the national lingua franca. Why your next vacation should be in France 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Their ninja assassin Tabitha and Napoleon piece was 180 degrees from Lauren and Kent's wistful romanticism, in the best possible way. Dancers, minus Alex Wong, mix things up on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-08T11:40:00Z “My ‘scoop’ or perspective on the war is that you actually have to blame Napoleon. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z Opening one on his dining table, Mr. Evans produced a letter to the Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, signed by Napoleon Bonaparte. Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z "Everybody at the time wore that kind of hat one way, but Napoleon wore it the other way so that everybody would recognize his silhouette on the battlefield," said the auction official, . South Korean throws hat in ring for trademark Napoleon headgear 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z I just thought: 'What's the point of singing songs about Napoleon Bonaparte?' What the folk! Nic Jones is back 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z In that regard, she put herself in the company of Napoleon Bonaparte, who said only “a fool” needed eight hours of sleep, and Winston Churchill, who was frequently a four-hour-a-night man himself. Is sleep the new sex? 2013-04-10T21:45:00Z It has survived eons of natural deterioration and assaults at the hands of men, notably during the ages of Napoleon and French Revolution, two eras surrounding the main action in “Les Misérables.” A dream of time gone by: How PBS's "Les Misérables" helps process the tragedy of the Notre Dame fire 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z When the Duke of Wellington meets Jonathan Strange, the magician sent to the continent from England to help him defeat Napoleon, he is not impressed. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Napoleon led millions to their deaths, yet he also instituted laws and reforms comparable in importance to those of the U.S. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Passenger ferries stream into Bastia – the port city at its eastern base that was Corsica’s capital until Napoleon moved it to his home town of Ajaccio – but the tourists seem to vanish into the maquis. Corsica’s cape of good campsites 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Lorde is dancing to 'Homemade Dynamite' but her moves remind me more of Napoleon Dynamite. The Most Useful Memes of Lorde's VMA Dance Are Here 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Gros depicts Napoleon in a similarly saintly light in his picture of him visiting plague victims in Jaffa. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z Most of us are like Pierre, who thinks Napoleon is a great man one day and the next day thinks he’s the anti-Christ. What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z However, the house was demolished in 1889 so the oldest surviving plaque in London is the one commemorating France’s final emperor, Napoleon III, on King Street, Westminster, which was also erected in 1867. London honors Muppets creator Jim Henson with blue plaque 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z How he recently bought some French hats on Amazon like the ones worn by Napoleon. The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The House of Alba acquired old master religious scenes, ancient sculpture, medieval manuscripts, Haydn music scores, Napoleon III’s furniture, Christopher Columbus’s correspondence, Renaissance tapestries, Impressionist landscapes and portraits of family members. A Brooklyn Show Celebrates an Inventive Mind of the Midway 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z This was readily apparent on his work with Armstrong, whom Mr. Napoleon accompanied for the first time in 1952 and 1953 — until his wife threatened divorce because of a tour that lasted seven months. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Schweizer’s treatment of Overall was striking for its historical omnivorousness: he is first seen in Napoleon’s hat and tunic and later appears as Stalin and, in the finale, as a Chaplinesque Hitler. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z She pinched a coat with military filigree, which belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte, at the shoulders, looking down on it. Tilda Swinton Stars in ‘The Impossible Wardrobe’ at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris 2012-10-01T02:54:14Z The Russians stalled and hinted but never gave a firm answer, seeking to keep Napoleon in Moscow as long as possible. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Napoleon’s vast army could not possibly have transported the food and fodder it needed and had to live off the resources of the lands he was invading. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Victor Hugo, the poet and novelist who furiously opposed the authoritarianism of the Second Empire proclaimed in 1852 by Napoleon III, sought refuge in the British Channel islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z The last time Paris expanded was in 1860, when Napoleon III annexed all of its surrounding suburbs. Paris just wants to be Brooklyn: A radical reinvention aims to fix the City of Light 2013-09-14T22:00:00Z The volumes belong to the cathedral in Toledo, Spain; a Spanish archbishop took them there after Napoleon’s troops looted them from the papal library. Antiques: Shahn Art Collection and Home Are for Sale 2010-10-14T21:46:00Z Napoleon was especially unlucky in weather: he lost Waterloo because of a rainstorm, and his march on Russia was beaten back not by war craft but by winter. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Squaring up for a light-hearted cockfight with the admiral on his column, Fritsch's sculpture is a strutting Napoleon giving Nelson the bird. Fourth plinth: Katharina Fritsch's cockerel gives Nelson the bird 2013-07-25T16:24:59Z The narrator loves Uncle Napoleon’s daughter, his cousin, but ultimately never marries her. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The Arc de Triomphe was erected at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Above all, both commanders trusted each other and never wavered in their mutual support, a factor that Napoleon almost certainly underestimated in his strategic calculus. A near-run thing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Napoleon was not listening then, and minor Napoleons are not listening today. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z “Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and The Anthropologists” Napoleon Chagnon is the most polarizing anthropologist in the field. ‘Noble Savages’: fierce tribes and occupational hazards 2013-02-13T22:32:44Z Just as it was shorthand for the sagas that surround it, be they of Joan of Arc, Napoleon or de Gaulle, which also provide the elements of a sartorial vocabulary all designers share. Woven Into the Fabrics of France 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z A little like Napoleon, who put a Bonaparte in high places across Europe, Mr. Michaels has “SNL” protégés all over the NBC map — and beyond. The TV Watch: Seth Meyers Takes Over as Host, With Ease 2014-02-25T17:59:16Z Napoleon notes that the show’s end titles include all of the choreographers’ names, which is already more crediting than some television dance artists get. Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z In that gigantic work Napoleon crowns the kneeling empress Josephine, but the drawings here show the original plan: He’s crowning himself with one hand. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z While Napoleon didn’t need Beethoven to secure his place in history, this snub reduced Bridgetower to near obscurity. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Churchill wasn't big on romance, so perhaps his enthusiasm for the film was sparked by its not-very-subtle repurposing of Britain's fight against Napoleon to reflect Britain's fight against Hitler for a wartime audience. That Hamilton Woman: a tale of two halves (for better or for worse) 2011-01-06T09:07:00Z A lot of people compared her to Napoleon Dynamite. The Most Useful Memes of Lorde's VMA Dance Are Here 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z In danger of flunking out of history class, they stumble on a time machine that lets them carouse with Napoleon, Joan of Arc and more; George Carlin plays their time travel guide. What’s on TV Friday: A Portrait of Meghan Markle and ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Napoleon also broke the Seven Commandments, but every time he broke a commandant his followers would add an extra word to the Commandments and nobody would notice. Animal Farm by George Orwell - review 2011-07-07T15:03:28Z Tresch himself is a distinguished historian of science, now at London’s Warburg Institute, and author of the prizewinning study, “The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology After Napoleon.” Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z As Boris Johnson told The Daily Telegraph a month before the E.U. referendum: “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this, and it ends tragically. The E.U. is an attempt to do this by different methods.” The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Venice sacrificed its identity to Napoleon—the city’s council voted for its own termination—and since then it has struggled to find another. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “I might as well get myself killed fighting Napoleon.” Review: Cramming ‘War & Peace’ Into a Mini-Series 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z “The pandemic made it nearly impossible to socialize him,” said Ms. Brown, a physical therapist, and Hopper developed a “Napoleon complex.” The People Who Got Puppies Were in Over Their Heads 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Napoleon taught himself to sing and play piano as a teenager and performed as both a sideman and a leader for more than seven decades. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Marty Napoleon, a jazz pianist best known for his many years with Louis Armstrong, died on Monday in Glen Cove, N.Y. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z The new look features parquet wooden floors and terra cotta walls that were chosen to resemble the Second Empire style of Napoleon III, who created the gallery to display Etruscan antiquities in the mid-19th century. Palace Intrigue at the Louvre, as a Paint Job Leads to a Lawsuit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But other exhibits called into question how complete his repudiation of Napoleon was. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z This did not prevent the long-established Galerie Perrin from giving up the finicky style of the Louis XV age in favor of the monumental mahogany furniture that became the rage across Europe following Napoleon’s conquests. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z The British were locked in their own desperate struggle with Napoleon and, like the French, regarded Russia as a remote, backward, half-Asian place. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Louis-Napoleon — or Napoleon III as he fashioned himself — was taken captive at Sedan, and Paris was besieged for more than four months. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z There were military victories, against Napoleon, the Russians and the Boers, not to mention numerous often defenseless peoples in Asia and Africa. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He even titles the chapter on Napoleon’s withdrawal “The Advance From Moscow.” Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Her 19th-century ancestors had owned a couturier house of fashion whose clientele included Eugenia, the wife of Emperor Napoleon III. Françoise Gilot, Artist in the Shadow of Picasso, Is Dead at 101 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z It’s hard to listen in on the director’s thoughts, or to eavesdrop on Napoleon and Marianne, without thinking about France’s current identity crisis, and also about Russia’s resurgent, defensive nationalism. Review: ‘Francofonia,’ About World War II Foes Turned Allies, for the Sake of Art 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Roberts brilliantly conveys the sheer energy and presence of Napoleon the organizational and military whirlwind who, through crisp and incessant questioning, sized up people and problems and got things done. Book Review Podcast: 'Napoleon: A Life' 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z He became a famous conqueror in an age when artists were interested in energy, power and the sublime – the Romantic qualities that Napoleon and his campaigns epitomised. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z Napoleon I is also all over this palace; regrettably undermentioned in this otherwise comprehensive article. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Much of the museum’s southern flank is dedicated to Goya, with 125 works currently on view, but Mr. Finaldi typically selects two large canvases portraying an uprising in Madrid against Napoleon’s forces to show visitors. 2010-02-10T19:52:00Z The client’s father called the area the grand boulevards, invoking Haussmann, the 19th-century French official who, in service of Louis Napoleon, remade Paris by razing slums and forcing out the poor. ‘Azor’ Review: A World on Fire, Discreetly 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Napoleon had lost not only most of the men he had led to Russia but 175,000 horses as well. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Distinguished by its radiant gold dome, the former veterans hospital of Les Invalides is home to Paris’s sprawling army museum and Napoleon’s tomb. 100 years later: Returning to World War I’s Western Front in France 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A third is crushed by a toppling statue of Napoleon. Exhibition Review: ‘Exquisitely Evil,’ Bond Villains at International Spy Museum 2012-11-15T23:35:07Z In an “Arab world” museum, the presence here of a hagiographic image of Napoleon, colonialist invader of Islamic North Africa and pilferer of non-Western art, is ripe with political irony. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Then playing Napoleon in Cinderella with the main company when I was 17. Portrait of the artist: Wayne Sleep, dancer 2010-07-26T21:15:00Z The family was musical — his uncle Phil Napoleon was a trumpet player who led a group called the Original Memphis Five, and three uncles were prominent studio and big-band musicians in the 1920s and ’30s. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z When the threat of an alliance between France and the Confederacy was dashed, Napoleon withdrew his support and in 1867 Maximilian was executed by Mexican troops. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Napoleon reopened the church but left the bones where they were; only in 1817 were the pits opened and the bits of royal skeletons, all jumbled together, moved to an ossuary in the church. Essay: In Europe, Sharing Moments With History 2012-10-10T20:43:02Z Tovey introduced the symphony by recounting the famous story of Beethoven furiously scratching out the dedication to Napoleon, the democratic composer angered over the French ruler declaring himself emperor. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Everyone in 1930s Japan, it seems, a little shockingly, is expected to know about Napoleon, but what they know is his dignity in defeat. The First English Translation of Hayao Miyazaki’s Favorite Childhood Book 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Ride and Seek, a bicycle touring company, normally offers two bike tours that feature Eastern European destinations: the “Napoleon” from Paris to St. Petersburg, Russia, and the “Iron Curtain” from Berlin to Budapest, Hungary. Should you cancel your European vacation during the Ukraine-Russia War? | Travel Troubleshooter 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z "Every generation has to have their own Napoleon." Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z I was traveling with my wife, Maria, to continue research into the life of Napoleon Bonaparte for a novel. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z His name will go down in history, the man who identifies with Napoleon promises: "I'm not exactly why as yet, but it will." The Apprentice, episode five – TV review 2013-05-29T06:00:03Z Where a pair of fairly generic 18th-century bronze light fixtures had hung, the museum has installed a crystal chandelier with spiraling arms made in Berlin around 1810 for Jérôme Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother. Tattoo History, Antique Typewriters and Letting Go at the Toledo Museum 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z There’s 30 minutes’ worth of Napoleon Hill babbling his claptrap on YouTube, and it’s well worth a look. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z A heart murmur kept Mr. Napoleon out of military service, but he performed for the troops with different bands. Marty Napoleon, 93, Dies; Jazz Pianist Played With Louis Armstrong 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z However, Britain and Spain quickly withdrew as it became clear that French ruler Napoleon III was more interested in overthrowing the new Mexican government. Americans might love Cinco de Mayo, but few know what they’re celebrating 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Gance answered this praise with the even more ambitious “Napoleon,” calling it “the greatest film of modern times.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z Napoleon himself, for whom Andress makes clear his dislike, is described at one time or another as bullying, complacent, solipsistic, blustering, deluded, coercive, self-regarding and frequently mistaken, all of which no doubt he was. The Savage Storm by David Andress - review 2012-12-06T10:00:01Z Napoleon lost about 80 percent of his men. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z “Let’s look it up,” he said, fishing his iPhone out of his pocket and pulling up an image of the 1801 painting by Jacques-Louis David, “Napoleon Crossing The Alps,” upon which the painting was based. Pete Wentz Checks Out Art in Chelsea 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z In 1808, a French army under Napoleon invaded Spain, deposed its king and put another ruler, Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte, in his place. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z After the second abdication Napoleon was not allowed to see his family again, a loss he sorely felt. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z One of them, “Danae”, remained in Madrid until it was seized by Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, after French forces invaded Spain. After 400 years, London show reunites six masterpieces by Titian 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Think of the famous sculptures and paintings of Augustus Caesar, Napoleon and George Washington. Analysis | That photograph of Pelosi and Trump is a work of art. Some say it’s a masterpiece. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z "My cavalry is in tatters, many horses are dying," dictated Napoleon, the once-feared leader showing the strain of his calamitous Russian invasion, which halved his army. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z He was already, before the putsch, comparing himself to people like Napoleon, and had this grand vision of himself as a messiah, the savior of Germany. Hitler’s turning point: Without his year in prison, “he could have disappeared into the sands of irrelevance” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Napoleon was imprisoned and died there, and Charles Darwin and Capt. James Cook made stops there. One final chance to sail to St. Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Other owners of Breguet watches included Marie Antoinette, Napoleon and the Russian tsars. George III's gold Breguet watch to be auctioned in London 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z With France the major power in Europe, in 1804 Napoleon declared himself emperor, a higher rank than king. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He acquired his stash of sculpture, paintings and monuments the same way Napoleon did: by conquering nations and claiming the treasure. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z Gaby also serves as the political football in the opener, which finds Napoleon coercing her to go over the wall in the name of the greater good or some such. Review: ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Resurrects a Glossy, Action-Packed ’60s 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Goethe, who never lost his admiration for Napoleon, is on the side of freedom but dubious about civil war and martyrdom, though he approved of the way Beethoven ends with a blaze of glory. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Those who used to frequent Napoleon will find the corner restaurant transformed, with distressed white paint on the walls, carved-wood room dividers, and ornamental teakettles and instruments. Gems come in all sizes at Lapis in Adams Morgan 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z “Do you know what that means?” he asked, pointing to the painting, which depicts Napoleon seated on a horse. Pete Wentz Checks Out Art in Chelsea 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z He was desperately in love with Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, who was wildly outrageous - and she was the second narrator. Book Talk: The tale of Napoleon's second wife 2012-11-15T12:27:03Z Across the ocean, Britain’s republicans marched to victory that same year, forcing the passage of the Reform Act, while Napoleon III lasted just four more years, until the Paris Commune seized France’s capital. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The one really big battle, Borodino, was more or less a draw, after Napoleon gave up personal command for reasons never satisfactorily explained. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z He teased one employee about being so old she dated Napoleon. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z As we set off for our voyage back to Cape Town, we saw something that Napoleon never saw — the ghostly crags of St. Helena receding into the horizon. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z On the narrative side, Mr. Hess – known for “Napoleon Dynamite” – will bring “Don Verdean,” a comedy about “faith and fraud” centered on a Biblical archaeologist. Sundance Film Festival 2015 Lineup: High-Profile Documentaries Among Premieres 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z She was an empress at heart, an admirer of Napoleon and Queen Victoria, and no feminist. Today We’d Call Her a Progressive Heroine. She’d Have Hated It. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The Waterloo pieces — including a mini Napoleon with signature long, gray coat — are bivouacked in a downstairs furnace room, tucked inside a thin-drawer cabinet normally used to store topographical maps. Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers Napoleon House, in a building nearly 250 years old, is one of the oldest bars/eateries in New Orleans and also has Italian immigrant history. Celebrate Italian-American ingenuity and the lore of New Orleans with this iconic sandwich 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Still, there is something to be said for trying a Napoleon made like baklava and a baklava made like a Napoleon. An Azerbaijani Feast Awaits in Brooklyn, if You Can Find It 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z And he took a job as painter-propagandist for Napoleon Bonaparte, an absolutist ruler of the kind he once opposed. Art Review: ?Drawings From the Louvre? at the Morgan Library - Review 2011-09-29T21:30:26Z Mr Roberts cleaves to a very French view of Napoleon, seeing him as a force for good who fed the greater glory of his country. Flawed sparkler 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Other relatives, including Mr. Napoleon’s pianist brother Teddy, were prominent band and studio musicians. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Pa is set to bring Stanley Kubrick's unfilmed screenplay about the life of Napoleon to the small screen. Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries 2013-03-04T12:02:02Z “The Coronation of Napoleon,” now on display at the Louvre, depicts a young and beautiful Joséphine, the youthful part a bit of a stretch, given she was 41 at the time. Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z It has to be late-stage Napoleon because early is too expensive. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z After Napoleon’s defeat, proletariat’s enraged about cake eating! Style Invitational: Tinker with the recipe — slightly change the name of a food 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Gérard, the artist, painted Napoleon several times and was known for his portraiture; several of his works are on view at the Louvre. Frick Buys Its First Painting Since 1991 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Among the discarded projects of the famously fastidious Stanley Kubrick are "lost" movies about Napoleon Bonaparte, the Holocaust and the American civil war. Scarlett Johansson cast in 'lost' Stanley Kubrick film 2010-04-14T11:03:00Z “A bust of Napoleon in your house somehow links you to Napoleon,” explained Mr. Bowyer, who owns a bust of Napoleon. The Bust Economy Is Booming 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z “It’s a simple equivalence: we’ve modernised it. And with this one, we needed someone who was iconic ... she’s become like Napoleon.” Sherlock's future in doubt as stars' Hollywood schedules fill 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This exhibition explores three of the early 19th century’s most prominent political leaders — Tsar Alexander I of Russia; his friend and foe Napoleon; and Napoleon’s wife, the Empress Joséphine. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “Hitchcock succeeded where Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon and Hitler failed,” Godard wrote: “in taking control of the universe.” The Many Selves of Alfred Hitchcock, Phobias, Fetishes and All 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z He once planned to follow his classic science fiction piece 2001: A Space Odyssey with an epic war film about the life of Napoleon, and also hoped to shoot the Holocaust-themed drama The Aryan Papers. Marc Forster plans US civil war epic based on Kubrick's The Downslope 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In 1928 he began a second feature about Napoleon, only to sell the script. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z If you would like an example of exactly what Hardy meant, I commend “Russia Against Napoleon” by Dominic Lieven. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z After briefly being conquered by Napoleon around the turn of the 19th century, it spent decades under British rule before achieving independence in 1964. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z During his meteoric rise and reign, Napoleon basked in triumph and achievement. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z Adolf Hitler, a frustrated painter who found other outlets for his creative anger, was the most prolific art collector since Napoleon. The Monuments Men is George Clooney’s Art of War 2014-02-06T14:25:53Z There are reminders here of other comedies of the grotesque: “Strangers With Candy,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” the character spoofs of Chris Lilley, the more vicious bits of “Glee.” Review: In ‘Haters Back Off!’ a Cringe-Worthy Star Is Born 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But the punches and matrices for Napoleon’s typeface survive. Exhibition Review: ?Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic? - Review 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z In 1812, France invaded Russia, a former ally that traded with Britain despite Napoleon’s policy forbidding it. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He was astonished at Napoleon's response: offering to sell not only the city but the entire Louisiana Territory, including the vast Mississippi watershed not already incorporated in the United States. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z It was Baron Rothschild, the 18th-century nobleman who pronounced “The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets,” after he’d made a fortune buying up property when Napoleon lost at Waterloo. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 4: Thomas Abigail 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Argentina's The Crossing of the Andes, about José De San Martín, a soldier who fought in Europe against Napoleon before leading Argentina's insurrection against Spain, promises pitched battles as its hero repels marauding royalist forces. Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films 2011-03-14T19:27:41Z Week 1394, a line of dialogue or description that would work for two different movies “Napoleon Dynamite” and “The Silence of the Lambs”: “You gonna eat your tots?” Style Invitational Week 1420: Singing on the job 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi once called Mr. Napoleon “the most exciting pianist the All Stars ever had. No one else could quite pound the piano like that and send the audience into such a frenzy.” Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z We entered the anteroom, which is large and bright and contains the original billiard table over which Napoleon used to spread his maps as he dictated his memoirs and relived his missteps at Waterloo. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z Yet even as he was taking it apart, others — notably the British historian Kevin Brownlow — were trying to restore “Napoleon” to its original glory. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z Mr. Foner also recovers the stories of forgotten black heroes like Louis Napoleon, a porter in Gay’s office who began scouring New York’s docks for runaways as early as the 1830s. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Since the mid-1990s, many of the independent U.S. films that go on to reach a mainstream audience have done so through Sundance, including Clerks, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite. 2010-01-27T17:25:00Z This was actually the central prize of the original story upon which this episode was based called “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.” The lady vanishes: “Sherlock” and the case of the disposable women 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z “Napoleon is a fascinating figure and huge influence on French and European history,” Mr. Wood said. Biking Napoleon's Route 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z A Christian Dior yellow gold bracelet inspired by a gilded Napoleon III cane chair. In Paris, Nature Meets Craft in Jewelry 2012-01-30T14:00:43Z It had all the grandiloquence, Calvert Vaux sneered, of Napoleon III. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z It's set in the final year of his life, when Leno's been put in a mental institution by his wife, and his fellow inmates there include Queen Victoria, Napoleon and Catherine The Great. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z Later, and after his death in 1898, he was endlessly quoted as giving the Empress Eugénie an answer all the more fun for probably being apocryphal: “It’s Napoleon III, your Majesty, and you complain!” Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z At the Napoleon House the old crowd hailed him from the small tables set out before the door. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Today, you can take home your own piece of French history of sorts: a burning bust of Marie Antoinette or Napoleon. What to Do in Left Bank, Paris 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The Hamiltons were also attracted to objects commissioned by European emperors, from Charlemagne to Napoleon. Reassembling Hamilton Palace, Room by Room, All 150 of Them 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Even under Napoleon, the bourgeoisie was willing to use the political instruments of war, law, and state-making to abolish feudalism and charge the atmosphere with the ions of revolution. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Two days later, he was under the knife: he had stage three cancer and it was metastatic – aggressive and with the expansionist tendencies of a biological Napoleon. Self-tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs 2012-11-24T00:05:29Z In a parting shot to Roger, Burt counselled: "No man has ever come back from leave – even Napoleon." Mad Men recap: season seven, episode seven – Waterloo 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z And then for the world building we looked at “Napoleon Dynamite” and “It Follows.” The Personal Back Story Driving ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z In images that bring to mind the destruction of ’s statue in Baghdad in 2003, we first see the column standing but wrapped with cables, then its crowning statue of Napoleon lying on the ground. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z With Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon in the Peninsular War and finally at Waterloo, he became Britain’s greatest military M.V.P. of all time. Cultured Traveler: In London, Private Homes on Display 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z Yet the Napoleon had another component as well, a nutlike, caramel quality that marked it as amontillado. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “The show’s producers didn’t get it,” Napoleon said. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z In “Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast,” Cynthia Saltzman, the author of two previous books about art, exposes the rich contradictions of the 1796 Italian campaign through the story of a prized Venetian masterpiece. How Napoleon Became One of History’s Most Rapacious Art Looters 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z One legacy of Napoleon’s civil service reforms: Parisian functionaries were trained never to throw away a piece of paper. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The full-scale female nude statue has only left Rome one other time: when it was seized by Napoleon and taken to France in 1797. Statue leaves Italy for 1st time since 1816 for US 2011-06-03T15:01:07Z Some historians say it memorializes the destruction of Munich in World War II; others that it was Beethoven and his disavowal of Napoleon — or maybe both — that was in Strauss’s mind. Sarah Chang and National Philharmonic shine in thoughtful and passionate program Today, Napoleon House serves their muffalettas hot, claiming to be the first to introduce hot muffalettas, using the following method: Construct your sandwich and lightly brush oil on top of bread. Celebrate Italian-American ingenuity and the lore of New Orleans with this iconic sandwich 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Beethoven famously scratched out the original dedication of his “Eroica” — to Napoleon — and instead titled it in honor of a nameless hero. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas, a Podium Hero, Returns 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z “We realized comedy was a big part of the brand,” Napoleon said. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The crown, made of gold, precious stones and pearls, and with a distinct tall peak, was presented to Napoleon III in 1861 by the ambassador from Siam. 15 Pieces of Art Snatched From Fontainebleau 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z The title is a fudge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Six Napoleons, a short story that featured plaster busts of the famous emperor. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Just a few months after “How to Win Friends” appeared, Napoleon Hill published “Think and Grow Rich,” which works if, like Hill, you think of a book that grows to 100 million copies. ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: Why the granddaddy of self-help endures 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z You'd want to do that in film because Napoleon would sit quite still and brood a lot. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Another dim slice of whimsy from the director of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, in this case a satire on the wimps who read and in some cases write third-rate sci-fi fantasy. Gentlemen Broncos 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z The auction also includes portraits of Napoleon, tricolour military sashes and medals, marble and bronze busts and statues of the emperor and other objects including Napoleon's gloves, razor and pocket watch. Napoleon's two-cornered hat up for grabs at French auction 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The actor also did voice work for video games including "Napoleon Total War" and "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary." Edward Hardwicke, TV's Dr. Watson, dies at 78 2011-05-18T13:01:08Z Next summer the group is introducing its second “epic” historical cycling tour, the Napoleon Expedition, a 45-day journey from Paris to Moscow. Biking Napoleon's Route 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Instead of the mule Napoleon actually rode, he provided a near-untamed war horse. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In one exception, Beyoncé and her dancers, with a synchronicity that immediately recalls the choreography of “Formation,” body roll in front of “The Coronation of Napoleon.” What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z As for the trajectories of Pearl and Napoleon, those embody both their sensibilities and their times with perfect naturalness. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Napoleon continues dancing for a few bathetic seconds before fleeing the stage. Unexpected dancing 2011-08-10T14:20:00Z This would cripple the French in the campaign of 1813 and be a considerable factor in Napoleon’s reverses of the summer and autumn of that year. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z It was held in a vast white cube that had been erected on one side of the Hôtel National des Invalides, practically at the doorstep of Napoleon’s tomb. In Paris, Dior, San Laurent and Their New Designers 2012-10-03T22:25:55Z The boomerang-shaped canal was once Napoleon’s conduit for supplying fresh water to Paris. A Paris Farewell 2011-03-25T18:55:10Z Not only is it all in code, but it's the first time we see this different Napoleon. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z Made for Napoleon himself, it was given to Wellington as a war prize. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z He was offered a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox and secured several lead roles in the 1940s, including Napoleon in The Young Mr Pitt. Herbert Lom, Panther star, dies 2012-09-27T11:55:38Z “Well, at least you’re alive. A lot of great men died like that. Jesus, Napoleon,” he said. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z As we cycled down tiny lanes planted with hollyhocks, I wondered what Napoleon, the proud Corsican islander, thought of these idyllic surroundings during the final days of his political reign. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z You can't claim that "What We Do in the Shadows" has run out of creative ways to prove what Napoleon Bonaparte once said about politics: "Stupidity is not a handicap." "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The store’s obvious best sellers may have been about Churchill, the Civil War and Napoleon. Review: ‘Martial Bliss,’ a Loving Memoir About a Bookstore for Military Buffs 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z More ambitiously, in 2009, he created a physical replica of Veronese’s “Wedding at Cana” and exhibited it, with projections, in the Venetian church where it resided before Napoleon took it to France. Art Review: Adding Bells and Whistles to Leonardo 2010-12-05T22:48:00Z Few historical figures are as widely fascinating as Napoleon. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Now they’ve gone back to their roots, turning “Napoleon Dynamite” into an animated TV series that will join Fox’s Sunday-night lineup this weekend with two episodes. Television Review: ?Napoleon Dynamite,? Animated Series on Fox - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z Bleu-sky thinking … Stanley Kubrick abandoned Napoleon in the 1970s after Hollywood studios refused to fund it. Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries 2013-03-04T12:02:02Z I am fascinated by Napoleon and Metternich, two antagonists.” | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z As Variety put it, “Napoleon” “wows” them in New Orleans, and “Syracuse Is Also Hotsy.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z "Napoleon Dynamite" The cartoon cashing in on the film's zeitgeist just in time. NBC and Fox unveil trailers for new series 2011-05-17T12:01:00Z How was the transition from Napoleon Dynamite to Jane Austen? Happy 200th Birthday, Pride & Prejudice…and Happy Sundance, Too 2013-01-28T14:50:07Z Disillusioned by Napoleon, he became disillusioned by revolution in practice but ever more ardent in spirit. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z David, having spent the previous decade producing spectacles of radical equality, would end up as Napoleon’s official court painter, and glorify the new emperor with a 32-foot-long panorama of his coronation. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “It makes you wish Napoleon were still around, so we — that is, I mean, the British Empire — could beat him all over again.” What’s on TV Sunday: Donald J. Trump on ‘60 Minutes’ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The park opened to the public in 1779 under the reign of her eldest son, Joseph II, only to be occupied twice by Napoleon. For the Vienna Philharmonic, Summer Means Schönbrunn 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Napoleon Bonaparte was in the mood to deal, hoping the sale of the 830,000 square miles would help finance his armed advances on Europe. 25 things you might not know about Thomas Jefferson 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Napoleon and his remaining followers thought this a great betrayal by a civilised and liberal nation. A near-run thing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z A portrait of Napoleon in court dress, giving the Sun King the side eye from one wall over, serves as an entertaining complement. The Unforgettable Meets the Unimaginable at the Winter Show 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z There are kaleidoscopic mosaics of Renaissance-esque floral bouquets, geometric patterns, the giant face of young Napoleon Bonaparte. Telling a Story Through Tiles 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z And although it often reads like a hagiography of Guevara – Bustos marvels at his leader's strength of character and compares him to Alexander the Great and the young Napoleon – he refuses to deify him. Che Guevara's 'betrayer' tells his side of the story after 40 years 2013-07-03T13:53:10Z Other materials in the society’s collection include a document signed by Napoleon Bonaparte approving the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and some of the earliest existing photographs of New York City. Historical society receives $7.5 million for archive storage 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z It is the same mood as that which characterized Napoleon III’s oppressive Second Empire. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z His first major movie role was as Napoleon in 1942′s The Young Mr. Pitt. Pink Panther Actor Herbert Lom Dead at 95 2012-09-27T16:17:21Z More than anyone else, Napoleon exemplified the key principle of modernity and social change, “the career open to talent.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Visit the home of Napoleon's nemesis the Duke of Wellington at Number 1 Hyde Park, and you will find Canova's nude marble statue of Napoleon. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z After Napoleon’s defeat, French officials were not as accommodating with the Veronese. Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z There’s a line of Marx’s I love from “The 18th Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon”: “First time tragedy, second time farce.” When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z Raw, lo-fi, angry dark punk from Medan with added passion about world history which leads us to a song about Napoleon Bonaparte. May's best music from across the MAP 2012-05-18T15:52:05Z A view of the Fondation Eugène Napoleon, one of the Parisian sites participating in European Heritage Days. In Transit Blog: For 'Heritage Days', Access to Hidden Paris 2011-08-26T10:00:51Z Napoleon said that teaching the humanities in universities was 'glorified table talk'. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z “He loved all things Napoleon Bonaparte,” Wendy Goodman, the design editor of New York magazine, who had known Mr. Prigent since the 1970s, said Sunday. Roger Prigent, Photographer Turned Antiques Dealer, Dies at 89 2012-12-17T03:34:26Z In 1861, after the president of Mexico, Benito Juárez, suspended foreign debt payments, Napoleon III sent French troops to invade Mexico. ‘It’s Not Only Margaritas’: The Story of Cinco de Mayo in Dance 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z AbuQir, which opened two years ago, takes its name from a fishing village on the eastern outskirts of Alexandria, Egypt, overlooking the bay where Lord Nelson laid waste to Napoleon’s fleet in 1798. In Queens, Star Treatment for Seafood 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Eric's declaration that the Napoleon "was absolutely dry" gives me the most to reconsider and contemplate. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z All along, Mr. Napoleon maintained a prolific recording career that included dates opposite saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, trumpeter Charlie Shavers and Henry “Red” Allen, among others. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It is one of the quirkiest lots we've ever sold – up there with one of Napoleon's teeth and a lock of Jane Austen's hair. Coronation Street cat Frisky's ashes auctioned for ?700 2010-07-22T15:34:00Z Napoleon III, of course, began as an elected President and ended up a self-appointed emperor, having decided that he might better serve the general interest by retaining power for life. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z He provides fascinating detail, as we read over Jefferson's shoulder Napoleon's offer and share with him the shock and joy of the unexpected development. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z At 38 Greene, Napoleon chairs, redolent of tea-dances and socials, appear in both three dimensions and two. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Overthrow New York’s lead trainer is Alicia Napoleon, a pro fighter known as “the Empress,” who has 11 amateur titles. The New Workout: Boxing Without the Bruises 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z My favorite literary genre, seriously, is European history, but only up until Napoleon. Joan Rivers: By the Book 2012-07-19T14:00:00Z It seeks, in other words, to find the television equivalent of “The Blair Witch Project,” "Precious” or "Napoleon Dynamite,” all of which came into the world in just this way. Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Napoleon is portrayed as a bratty egotist who views France’s West Indian properties as a laundry. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z Napoleon III’s reasons for modernizing Paris were vastly different from Mitterrand’s stated desire to bring culture closer to the masses, but both men sought to leave a heavy personal legacy on the city. Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z Mr. Napoleon’s family had been immersed in music for generations. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Alexander knew Napoleon would not be defeated in a single season, and he was prepared to be patient to achieve his aims. 'Russia Against Napoleon': A new book for fans of military history 2010-05-26T23:57:00Z In it, this future archbishop proves that there’s no way to be absolutely sure that Napoleon, who was then still alive, wasn’t actually a myth. Review | All the books in my 300 boxes sparked joy. The lockdown made me rethink why I was keeping them. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z After his defeat, experts say Napoleon saw holding onto Louisiana as a liability and sold the land to the U.S. for $15 million. New Orleans, Haiti share cultural history at fest 2011-05-01T22:33:10Z To these, Napoleon added a beltlike wall of defense protecting the naval arsenal at the port of Rochefort. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Hidalgo La Gitana Napoleon, for example, seemed not so far evolved from its younger days, when it set out as a manzanilla. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But he was orphaned, his family lost its wealth and Napoleon’s empire collapsed, so by the time Delacroix was a young man, he was forced to be intellectually and socially entrepreneurial. Review | In Paris, a major Delacroix exhibition that continues to explore his genius 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The next gallery includes a portrait of Napoleon III finished days after he died in exile in England, and two of Princess Mathilde, a cousin of the emperor known for her literary salon. Art Review: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French Artist of Multiple Passions 2014-03-27T22:29:43Z "They were super professional, listened all the time -- and they just wanted to dance," Napoleon said. Watch how hip-hop choreography can get kids to behave 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z A professor lectures on the French Revolution and Napoleon’s co-opting of it, which, he argues, also paradoxically fulfilled it. ‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z In the most poignant change of all Napoleon reintroduced slavery in Dumas's native Haiti, and crushed the republic of former slaves established by the Haitian hero Toussaint L'Ouverture. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss – review 2012-09-28T21:55:05Z As rarely happens at art fairs, both shows draw you deeply into their respective worlds: Ensor’s crowds massing before Jesus, Napoleon and Roman gladiators; Burckhardt’s studio and street shots from Abstract Expressionism’s heyday. Art Review: The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory 2012-03-08T22:12:26Z All in all, says Broers, Napoleon used his power as “a creative force for reforming first France, and then Europe, as he saw fit.” ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Every Labour speech is seen as part of the leadership contest, as if the starving French army, retreating from Moscow, devoted its time to arguing about who should replace Napoleon. Simon Hoggart's week: Same old voices, different sides 2010-05-28T23:13:00Z When Napoleon’s armies fought and lost the make-or-break Battle of Waterloo, he was all of 45. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The worst thing about the footballing Napoleon complex is that it's so possessive of a game that shouldn't, and ultimately can't, be possessed. Andy Gray and Richard Keys have finally met their Waterloo. I'm glad 2011-01-30T00:06:24Z The Spanish attitude toward the late dictator is not like the anachronistic pride of the French for Napoleon, whose militarism they would not now condone in a leader; it is nothing but revulsion. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z Napoleon III’s cabinet de travail completes the chateau’s “Second Empire circuit,” which also includes his and the Empress Eugenie’s private chambers and the Chinese Museum, which holds pieces from across Asia. In Transit Blog: After Renovation, a Busy Summer at Fontainebleau 2013-07-17T16:51:29Z And yet it’s true that the American Midwest, in the century after Jefferson purchased it from Napoleon, provided unusually fertile soil for schools as well as corn. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The company meticulously restored the former home of the French imperial prince Roland Bonaparte, grand-nephew of Emperor Napoleon, taking such pains as to remove and rehabilitate the 1896 building’s original wood floors slat by slat. | The Shangri-La Paris 2011-01-10T20:10:58Z Quirky animated comedy "Napoleon Dynamite" will be joining new seasons of "Bob's Burgers" along with Fox's Sunday night animation domination shows "The Simpsons," "Family Guy," "American Dad" and "The Cleveland Show." Fox says no "Glee" spin-off, changes to "X Factor" 2012-01-09T00:12:23Z A black man born in 1762 in the French colony of Haiti, Dumas rose to the top of Napoleon’s military empire, then had his legacy almost erased by his former boss. Facts rule: 8 great nonfiction books 2013-06-14T17:29:09Z Mr. Guare also strikes a sharp contemporary note when Napoleon, having ceded the Louisiana Territory for the then exorbitant sum of $15 million, predicts that the rapidly expanding country will be riven by irresolvable conflict. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z The Shangri-La opened last December in a building that housed the grand-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. | Closin' Up the Ritz 2011-10-31T22:23:54Z Think of the Place Vendôme as a giant coral of jewels: a dozen or more shops, all in one square, presided over by Napoleon’s statue. A Vision in Melancholy 2011-07-06T22:31:19Z Mr. Napoleon recalled that it was hard for Marx to escape his vaudeville roots. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Dantès's plunge from the battlements is dramatically suggested with a white sheet, though you are also given to believe that he delivers compromising documents to the exiled Napoleon on the orders of a sock monkey. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z So it is that, on the following evening, I find myself in a kayak in 95-degree heat at dusk when I hear Matej say something about Napoleon. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Its 1,115 pages offer his entertaining thoughts on politics, art, music, technology and literature, with cameos by Napoleon, Goya, Beethoven, Faraday, Mary Shelley and dozens of others. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z But in many of his letters to her, Napoleon just bemoans how many notes he writes and how few he receives in return: The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z There are also some extraordinary historical documents, including a leather portfolio and diary carried by Napoleon’s surgeon in chief, Dominique Jean Larrey, through the disastrous French campaign in Russia in 1812-13. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z And over there, the golden dome of the Invalides where Napoleon is entombed! What a rush: Zip lining off the Eiffel Tower 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “I picked XIV strictly because I liked how it looked next to Napoleon,” Mr. Samuels wrote. Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The British were not fans of the French, and they wanted Napoleon to appear as tiny as possible in their newspapers. French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has a complicated legacy 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z His mystique was amplified by tour photos taken by his official portraitist Napoleon Sarony: Wilde in knee breeches, for instance, reclining sensuously on a fur rug. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z After a year of renovations, the chateau is offering extensive summer programming and the unveiling of Napoleon III’s private study. In Transit Blog: After Renovation, a Busy Summer at Fontainebleau 2013-07-17T16:51:29Z Now, it showcases art from nearly every civilization on the planet, including about 50 pieces acquired through Napoléon’s Egypt campaigns — and the gigantic “The Coronation of Napoleon.” Discovering Joséphine Bonaparte in Martinique, Italy and France 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z He would inaugurate affairs with young women, spit out torrents of hurtful abuse, grow physically violent and delusional, and sometimes identify himself with Napoleon or even Hitler. Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The bicorne hat was a trademark of Napoleon, who wore it athwart, the two points aligned with his shoulders. South Korean throws hat in ring for trademark Napoleon headgear 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z The appearance of the Napoleon hat is as predictable as the sneering at the Americans. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the Revolution succeeded by the reign of Napoleon, that meant history painting: magniloquent tableaus — battles, shipwrecks, coronations — in which myth and reality met. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z Napoleon apparently took good care of his teeth, using a tongue scraper of the kind we see here, as well as a toothbrush. This Exhibition Has Real Bite 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Its beginning was overshadowed by Napoleon, who controlled much of continental Europe, had begun an invasion of Russia and had his eyes set on the conquest of Britain. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z In September, 200 years after Russia's victory over Napoleon, the Kremlin held huge celebrations aimed at rousing patriotism among modern Russians. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z “We wanted to write a musical about Napoleon, but we only ever wrote one song,” says Brooks. 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The predynastic period in particular was not really identified as such until the late 19th century, about 100 years after Napoleon’s otherwise disastrous expedition to Egypt laid the foundations for Egyptology. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z Developed for the Paris Exposition of Napoleon III, the classification ranked Bordeaux’s most famous chateaux according to the price fetched by their wines. How relevant is a 160-year-old way to classify chateaux vintages? 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Napoleon’s hat is a blown-up version of one he wore at the Battle of Eylau in East Prussia. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Accompanied by soldiers in full period costume, a Napoleon impersonator — Paris lawyer Frank Samson, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the emperor — disembarked on the sun-soaked beaches of Golfe-Juan on the French Riviera. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “Spontini offers an opportunity for a similar understanding of Napoleon through music.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z They both took new lovers, but they remained officially married until 1809, when Napoleon announced plans to divorce Josephine, mainly because she couldn't bear any children for him. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In the 1860s, the countess of Castiglione, mistress of Napoleon III, revelled in performing for a professional photographer. Watching you 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z In 1870, after Napoleon III’s forces surrendered to the Prussians and the government collapsed, the Empress Eugénie fled Paris inside the carriage. A Collection From Napoleon III’s Dentist, Now on View at Penn 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The High is also borrowing 1810s scenes of Napoleon luxuriating at his newly renovated Tuileries Palace, which was destroyed in 1871. Antiques: Roman Forum Church, Santa Maria Antiqua 2012-06-14T21:10:47Z He laughed, “I’m not saying I’m acting like Napoleon. But there’s something about the end of his life that I responded to.” Toronto Film Festival: Al Pacino's 'Humbling' goes the art-life route 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z There we imitated Napoleon and his retinue by lunching on the lawn overlooking Sandy Bay. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z Then he explains: “Napoleon is one of the reasons Lokrum is cursed.” Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z When he identified himself, the astonished telephone operator at the Jesuit Curia said his first thought was, “Sure, and I’m Napoleon.” 'The Great Reformer': Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z She last year likened franchise director Michael Bay to Hitler and Napoleon, and said he was "a nightmare to work for." Actress Megan Fox marries in Hawaii: report 2010-06-29T03:51:00Z A mere year and a half after French soldiers had entered Moscow in triumph, Russian soldiers were at the gates of Paris, and Napoleon was forced to abdicate. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z It was more delicate in texture than the Napoleon, and just as saline. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The fashion crowd sat on distanced cubes facing an imposing bronze of Napoleon, as Max Mara previewed its feminine uniform for next spring and summer. Prada-Simons dialogue launches in virtual Milan preview 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “What many people told me is that the perfume of Napoleon — because that’s in the composition — reminded them of their grandmothers,” Verbeek said. Aromas can evoke beloved journeys — or voyages not yet taken 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z They beat the French Empire, Napoleon and them. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z In the late 19th century, a scheme hatched by Napoleon III to engineer supersoldiers scientifically goes horribly awry. Review: ‘April and the Extraordinary World,’ Animated Sci-Fi From France 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z But the district, once claimed by King David, the Pharaohs and even Napoleon, has for decades been in the shadow of shiny Tel Aviv. Jaffa Is Tel Aviv’s Unexpected Luxury Hotspot 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z "The Muppets from the beginning have been walking that tightrope," said Burrell, a star of ABC comedy series "Modern Family," who plays Interpol inspector Jean Pierre Napoleon alongside Sam the Eagle, a Muppet. Evil frog spawns international mayhem in 'Muppets Most Wanted' 2014-03-18T19:03:28Z This is something of a miracle, given that from the time of Napoleon onwards Europeans tried to get hold of as much Egyptian treasure as possible. Egypt's museums must be defended 2011-01-31T12:03:29Z Has it really been only seven and a half years since “Napoleon Dynamite” was in theaters? Television Review: ?Napoleon Dynamite,? Animated Series on Fox - Review 2012-01-14T01:49:07Z Eventually, Josephine's affair was confirmed to Napoleon, and the passion he once had for her slowly fizzled. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z It was also there that Napoleon was crowned Emperor in 1804. No Christmas mass at Notre-Dame for the first time since Napoleon 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z His caricatures of Napoleon include a colossal George III contemplating his miniature enemy, who bestrides no more than the plump palm of the royal hand. What can Spielberg learn about Napoleon from art? 2013-03-05T15:30:36Z And yet until 2007, when the Law of Historical Memory was passed which ordered their removal, there were as many tokens of Franco’s legacy in Spain as there are of Napoleon’s in France. Spanish capital en ruinas 2013-02-19T16:42:00Z He said Armstrong’s manager kept throwing more money at Mr. Napoleon, until the amounts became too high for him to turn down. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He charted the horrors of the Peninsular War that followed Napoleon’s invasion of Spain, in graphic detail. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Blaszkiewicz, the musicologist, even suggested that Styx can be seen as a stand-in for Emperor Napoleon III, a supporter of Offenbach. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Jefferson worked with another French ruler, Napoleon, to send Paris needed cash in return for doubling the landholdings of the United States. Learning From Henry Kissinger 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It served him well over a six-decade career in which roles ranged from Napoleon Bonaparte — whom he played twice — to the Phantom of the Opera. Pink Panther Actor Herbert Lom Dead at 95 2012-09-27T16:17:21Z During the 15 years of his reign at the start of the 19th century, Napoleon went through about 120 hats. South Korean throws hat in ring for trademark Napoleon headgear 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z I’m a drinker of gin martinis, and I feel about them the way Napoleon felt about Champagne — that is, in victory you deserve them, in defeat you need them. Books of The Times: ‘The Book of Gin,’ by Richard Barnett 2012-12-11T21:11:25Z In truth “Napoleon,” as it was initially hailed, no longer exists, which raises ticklish questions about authorship. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z Francis Lieber was wounded while fighting against Napoleon, had a son fighting on each side in the Civil War and immersed himself in war. 'Lincoln's Code': the man who wrote the rules of war 2012-11-14T20:37:05Z Past the main salon lies a small dining room where Napoleon and his threadbare court attended formal dinners served on fine Sèvres porcelain by butlers in livery, as elegant silverware glittered in the candlelight. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z His coach was an exact replica of Napoleon’s. Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott Such is the trouble for mother and man-child in Daniel Reitz’s terribly tender, very funny short play “Napoleon in Exile.” A Neil LaBute Play Anchors Summer Shorts Festival 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Napoleon admired Duport but was increasingly outraged by his imperious behavior and salary demands. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z I guess you could say the Napoleon certainly primed the pump. The When and Why of Amontillado 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z The Americans are Napoleon Hill, who founded the self-help movement with his positive mental attitude at the turn of the last century, as well as Calvin Coolidge and William Tecumseh Sherman. L.A. Phil chamber players start Next on Grand in here and now 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z They took inspiration from the French Revolution, and venerated Napoleon as a genius while his army advanced through Europe. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Paintings featured include portraits of her children – Aaron, Jojo and Rudi, to whom she left 18 canvases – as well as depictions of the Titanic, Captain Scott's journey to the south pole and Napoleon. Beryl Bainbridge exhibition showcases acclaimed author's hidden talent 2012-11-22T16:58:43Z Once on the island, we toured Longwood House, where Napoleon spent his last years. One final chance to sail to St. Helena, a remote island in the Atlantic 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z True, Napoleon is nominally present, presiding with a stern semi-smile over the proceedings from within a copy of a Jacques-Louis David portrait. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z She met Joachim Murat, the King of Naples, and his wife, Caroline, Napoleon’s youngest sister. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Disaster after disaster, in fact, as the city faced invasions of Gauls and Goths, Byzantines and Normans, Catholic and Protestant armies in the wars of religion, Napoleon and the Nazis, and somehow survived each trauma. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z She was referring to the very first waterproof boots, invented in the 19th century by the Duke of Wellington, famous for defeating Napoleon at Waterloo. An orchard-to-orchard trip through Ireland’s hard cider boom 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Hitler was not just another Napoleon, despite what AJP Taylor professed to believe; he turned out to be bent on genocide as well as war. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z She worshiped Napoleon and patterned herself after him. Anderson Cooper Wishes His Parents and Truman Capote Could Reconcile Over Dinner 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Napoleon’s troops trimmed their helmets and saddle covers in leopard skin. Dressed to Kill: The Power of Leopard Prints 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Among the great men of the 19th century he modestly placed “himself third, Napoleon second, and Brummell first.” Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z His willingness to embrace a comedy of whiny masculinity and Napoleon complexes propelled him to major success; he has since made odd-couple capers and slightly edgy comedies. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z It is not clear how far down the line Spielberg is with his version of the Napoleon story. Steven Spielberg to shoot Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon as miniseries 2013-03-04T12:02:02Z Guerlain started using the bee as its symbol after being appointed to supply perfumes to the court of the emperor Napoleon III, she noted. In Transit: Paris Art Show Gives 'Buzz' a New Meaning 2010-10-13T10:00:00Z New airport serves a South Atlantic isle that was home-in-exile to Napoleon and a Zulu king, a base for anti-slavery patrols, and now home to modern ‘Saints.’ With a single weekly flight, remote St. Helena island woos more tourists 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Whatever your opinion of the upstart Corsican, one thing is certain: A hundred years from now, publishers will still be bringing out books about Napoleon Bonaparte. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The Iberian campaign bogged down, and audiences identified Cortés with the courage of Napoleon’s opponents. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The film is devoted to the only truths worth engaging, about love, sex and death, all questions unasked in the neutered, cutesy world of, say, “Napoleon Dynamite” and the like. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z The choreographers enjoyed working with their untraditional crews. "These kids on the set of this ABCmouse music video were ridiculous," Napoleon Dumo said. Watch how hip-hop choreography can get kids to behave 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Emperor Napoleon III started a competition for an “Imperial Academy of Music and Dance” in December 1860. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “My stomach is in knots,” said Ms. Napoleon, 41, describing her apprehension whenever she arrives at the airport with her husband and two children. Testing Autism and Air Travel 2012-10-28T04:47:23Z According to Bellos, Wraxall, a historian who fancied himself an expert on Waterloo, did not hesitate to alter the meaning of Hugo’s novel whenever he disagreed with passages pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte’s downfall. The Legacy of ‘Les Misérables’: Charting the Life of a Classic 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The figure most closely associated with Fontainebleau in our day is among the last in the long line of monarchs who lived there, Napoleon Bonaparte. Fontainebleau: A Forgotten Treasure 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z His previous film, Love and Death, dumped his classic neurotic New Yorker persona into a plot to assassinate Napoleon. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z With adroit diplomacy the czar peeled Prussia and Austria away from their alliances with Napoleon, and Sweden from its neutrality. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z “I was inspired by Napoleon, as he would create beautiful transitory spaces for himself to lounge in wherever he was.” Step inside a home decorated for a 1-percenter: The 2016 Kips Bay show house 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z For American cinephiles there’s an indisputable reason to see “Napoleon” now: film. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z After briefly being conquered by Napoleon around the turn of the 19th century, it spent many decades under British rule before achieving independence in 1964. Beneath Malta’s Beauty, a Tangled History 2013-12-06T18:20:39Z “Napoleon” was brutally received in the United States when it, or rather the MGM hatchet job, was released here in 1929. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z Four errors, partly the result of poor staff work, helped doom Napoleon. A near-run thing 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Of the making of books about Napoleon Bonaparte, there seems to be no end. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Ever since 1802, when Napoleon Bonaparte created the Legion of Honor as an award of merit for all professions, the French government has handed medals out like party favors. | Much Ado About the Legion of Honor 2013-08-02T15:37:00Z In the summer of 1813, a decade after Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States, such freedoms are about to be revoked by the establishment of new laws. Review: In a New Orleans ‘House,’ Wealthy Women Are Haunted by Slavery’s Ghosts 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z In high school I worked at an Italian bakery, where I spent a good part of my shifts sampling the very sweetest part of the pastries, often just the frosted tops of Napoleons. Motherlode: Breaking the Family Sugar Habit 2011-04-06T15:45:39Z We have Napoleon to thank for the invention of margarine. Can you actually substitute margarine for butter in baking? 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Ensconced in Boston’s high society from childhood, Lowell was a volatile and sometimes violent youth — Jamison recalls, for example, his childhood obsessions with snakes and Napoleon. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z By 1792 Napoleon had dethroned the Habsburg couple, and they packed a few shiploads of possessions and returned to Vienna, where the archduchess died of typhus. Antiques: Leighton House Museum Reopens in London With New D?cor 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z After Napoleon’s defeat — “a near-run thing,” as his adversary Wellington admitted — the emperor’s family and his generals all realized they would soon be facing prison sentences or firing squads. Review | Napoleon Bonaparte, gardener? Yes, says a new book, the dictator found solace in the natural world 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z I'm playing the part, but it's only the voice, and so much of the Napoleon character is capturing the image and the physical movements. A Minute With: Jon Heder about Napoleon Dynamite on TV 2012-01-04T15:37:02Z It's as if Packer himself couldn't completely resist the helium platitudes of Napoleon Hill. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z He's lived in Dubai, knows it like the back of his hand; plus, he's going to make history, like Napoleon, no human in this world intimidates him … yeah shush now, you ridiculous man. The Apprentice, episode five – TV review 2013-05-29T06:00:03Z Victory over Napoleon was no accident, but the result of years of careful preparation and planning for war. 'Russia Against Napoleon': A new book for fans of military history 2010-05-26T23:57:00Z Food, an art that doesn’t last at all, except in memory, had touched on similar territory around the time of Napoleon. ‘Marvelous Sugar Baby’ as a Contribution to Ephemeral Art 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps that explains why he kept returning to “Napoleon,” his last significant work and a haunting presence in his life. Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z The works were stolen from the Chinese wing of the castle, which contains works collected by the Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III’s wife. 15 Pieces of Art Snatched From Fontainebleau 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z She is blissfully pregnant while he’s puzzling over who stole Napoleon’s dessert plates and other odd items. Review | Five great new mysteries and thrillers to look forward to this spring 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z There, Benny and Napoleon land a regular gig. ‘The Jazz Palace,’ by Mary Morris 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Pedro is a transfer student whom Napoleon befriends and supports in his campaign for school president. 5 Election Comedies to Get You Ready for the Polls 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z When Napoleon Bonaparte led his army across the Alps, he ordered the Italian states he conquered to hand over artworks that were the pride of the peninsula. The Masterpieces That Napoleon Stole, and How Some Went Back 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Much of the furniture in the apartment comes from the family villa of my husband, Emanuele Tournon, a descendant of French officials who came to Italy with Napoleon. | The Narrative of Home 2014-05-06T15:28:42Z The show’s creators, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, have said that my character is a blend of Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Lawrence of Arabia. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Then, 150 years later, Napoleon conquered Rome and renovated the Quirinale, bricking up the windows, dividing the space into three large rooms and largely covering the paintings with wall hangings and wallpaper. In Transit Blog: Obscured Frescoes See the Light in Rome 2011-12-15T11:00:39Z The Turk was victorious against several famous opponents, including Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. Are robots moving sculptures? On Art, illusion and artificial intelligence 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Brancowitz jokes that "there's been a lot of resistance from your little island; we feel like Napoleon trying to invade". Phoenix Metaphors 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z An estimated 200,000 soldiers fought at the Battle of Waterloo, the public spanking that Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, gave Napoleon Bonaparte on June 18, 1815. Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers The network has also plans to make a cartoon version of cult comedy Napoleon Dynamite and a show about ghosts on Alcatraz - the brainchild of Lost and Alias creator JJ Abrams. Family Guy creator to give Flintstones a yabba-do-over 2011-05-18T09:46:21Z Napoleon Hill said, ”A goal is a dream with a deadline.” How to Use the Holidays to Advance Your Career 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z While Napoleon believed his fortunes to be governed by destiny, his real genius lay in self-control and martial daring coupled with an indomitable will to power. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The world of "A Free Man of Color" is peopled with broadly drawn, larger-than-life locals as well as historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, James Monroe, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Jeffrey Wright preens in 19th century New Orleans 2010-11-23T03:01:00Z What interested him was History, capital H. Napoleon, he said, was a “paroxysm in his time just as his time was a paroxysm of history.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z It was built in the 19th century by Napoleon III and I thought, God Almighty, this would be a wonderful place for a very rich man to live. T Magazine: Bon Mots 2012-11-09T16:00:43Z In a memoir, Mr. Samuels wrote that he wanted to use a stage name for the record and a drummer friend suggested Napoleon. Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z There may be a reason for the seemingly one-sided passion in their relationship: During the First Italian Campaign, just months after their marriage, rumors of Josephine's infidelity reached Napoleon's ears. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z In “My Uncle Napoleon,” he focuses on an aristocratic family from the Qajar dynasty, which had ruled Persia for over 100 years. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Napoleon and his “cannon fodder,” slavery and its ever-renewed human merchandise — they both fit in here. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z For example, in the militaries of modern Europe, brought into being from the creativity of Napoleon and Frederick, there was the practice of recruiting by age. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z She likes jubilant dresses with more layers than a Napoleon, coats embroidered for a raj and jewelry that sparkles like gold bullion. How a little girl’s ‘pretty dresses’ became one of the most significant gifts to the Met 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Napoleon also led many of his own trios and quartets on the nightclub and jazz festival circuits, and he played with many promising younger players, such as trumpeter Bria Skonberg. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s Beyoncé’s video for her song “Apes**t,” shot in the Louvre, in which she and her dancers wriggle in formation before David’s epic canvas of Napoleon’s coronation. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In 1853, Emperor Napoleon III instructed Haussmann to change Paris from a medieval warren of overcrowded, narrow streets into a grand city of spacious boulevards, public squares and ample parks. Gustave Caillebotte's role in Impressionist history illuminated in 'Painter's Eye' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Seemingly adrift in the Atlantic, it’s the last bit of certified French ground on which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed before his ultimate exile to the remote island of St. Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Better than Elba: Echoes of Napoleon on idyllic French islands 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It gives little scrutiny to political dealings in the 18th and 19th centuries between Prussia and Russia, both absolute monarchies that opposed the French Revolution, allied against Napoleon and took part in dividing up Poland. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z In France, church leaders encouraged a young Mitt Romney to study “Think and Grow Rich,” the landmark self-help book written in 1937 by motivational guru Napoleon Hill. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z Christophe is shown in this beautifully rendered painting with his wife and daughter, his hand tucked into his jacket just like Napoleon, after whom he styled himself. The Winter Antiques Show Embraces the Evolving Definition of Antique 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z That same year Mr. Brownlow showed his first reconstruction of the silent “Napoleon.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z And the logistics of supplying an army as huge as Napoleon’s in Russia as it advanced a thousand miles from its bases were formidable to put it mildly. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Beethoven, here, still identified with Napoleon as revolutionary. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But happily for the duchess's future fame Napoleon picked the same day to launch an offensive that culminated in the battle of Waterloo. Suzette Field's top 10 literary party hosts 2012-12-12T16:27:54Z Mr. Samuels, who lived in King of Prussia, Pa., outside Philadelphia, said he made one public appearance costumed as Napoleon XIV but found the experience humiliating and didn’t repeat it. Jerry Samuels, Creator of a Novelty Hit, Is Dead at 84 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Egypt had been a locus of fascination for Europeans, especially the French, since Napoleon’s short-lived military conquest at the close of the 18th century. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Napoleon stole several panels, and the Nazis took the whole thing; the Monuments Men returned the altarpiece to St. Bavo’s Cathedral in 1945, but one of Van Eyck’s panels is still missing. Jan Van Eyck’s Diamond-Hard Brilliance, as You’ll Never See It Again 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z The exhibition's centerpiece is a room devoted to politics, showing how artists have skewered politicians from Napoleon Bonaparte to Adolf Hitler and prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. 'Rude Britannia' looks at 300 years of comic art 2010-06-07T14:47:00Z When Napoleon reached Moscow, matters got even worse for him and his vital cavalry. Books of The Times: Dominic Lieven?s ?Russia Against Napoleon? 2010-04-07T22:54:00Z Knew that the gilt on the top of the Invalides where Napoleon was buried was real gold leaf and the name of Marie Antoinette’s hairdresser. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z It did so without comment, except that one of the accompanying illustrations showed Napoleon the dictator wearing the trademark black horn-rimmed spectacles of Zimbabwe's own leader. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The vividly rendered city brings the strife home, with its thousands of computer-controlled protesters packing the squares, its to-scale landmarks and its walk-on appearances by Robespierre and Napoleon. Assassin’s Creed Rogue and Unity, Moral Tables Are Turned 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z Moran, who is currently working on a book about an Indian warrior queen, spoke with Reuters about Napoleon, his second wife, and why she likes to write about history. Book Talk: The tale of Napoleon's second wife 2012-11-15T12:27:03Z Mr. Schweitzer portrayed him first as Napoleon, then as Stalin and only later as a Chaplin-esque version of Hitler. Provocative Opera at 2 Extremes: Early and New Music 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z The challenges were definitely trying to show a different side of Napoleon, since many people are attached to him as a military genius. Book Talk: The tale of Napoleon's second wife 2012-11-15T12:27:03Z Hess, the director of the instant-classic 2004 comedy “Napoleon Dynamite,” is an American artist, and a religious artist, of the first order. Jared Hess’s Spiritual Gross-Out Comedy, in “Masterminds” 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In keeping with her book’s schtick, Willis suggests a “brilliant” upgrade: to neatly layer the cakes with goat cheese or ricotta and thickly sliced tomato and stack them, Napoleon style. Weeknight Vegetarian: In a griddle cake, okra shines without the slime A year after his birth in Paris in 1848, his father, a dissident writer fleeing Napoleon III’s wrath, moved the family to South America. We’re Still Talking About Gauguin 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Napoleon’s mere presence on the battlefield, his great adversary the Duke of Wellington noted, “was worth 40,000 men.” A Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The same goes for passages about the power of love, as described in one scene by Uncle Napoleon’s long-suffering servant, Mash Ghasem. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z A marble staircase leads to a lounge with gilded bookcases, ruby walls and a painted Napoleon III Giltwood piano, which sits, prim and ornate, in a corner. Two Venice Hotels, Two Sides of a Celebrated City 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Only this season, there wasn't a spotlight shining on an astronaut, swashbuckling pirate or Napoleon costume. Dior, minus its designer 2011-03-07T15:52:04Z It was painted between 1808-1812, around the time of Napoleon's siege of Zaragoza, and represents sustenance for Spaniards fighting for their independence. Royal Academy to exhibit Hungary's art treasures 2010-05-14T23:49:00Z Philip II of Spain off the coast of France, and Napoleon and Hitler in Russia, fell prey as well. ‘On Grand Strategy’ Review: The War Against Decline and Fall 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The future French emperor Napoleon was posted in Valence as a young lieutenant. Le Dauphiné, a French Region With a History Both Ancient and Personal 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z With the Abbe Sieyès, Talleyrand and Napoleon organized the overthrow of the Directory on Nov. 9, 1799 — the 18th Brumaire, as it was called by the revolutionary calendar. ‘Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny’ sheds new light on the storied emperor 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z On a recent Saturday afternoon, a sushi chef was admiring a portrait of Napoleon hanging in the National Gallery of Art. Daisuke Nakazawa is opening a sushi restaurant in a Trump hotel. And he’s not apologizing. 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z |
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