Louis Napoleon

Marx's observation, proffered in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, about history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce, has been regurgitated so often that one feels a sheep-like silliness in reciting it again.

Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010

Marx's observation, proffered in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, about history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce, has been regurgitated so often that one feels a sheep-like silliness in reciting it again.

Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010

Sure we have fake victories like notches on a Winchester 94 buttstock -- Desert Storm and OEF and OIF -- How like Magenta or Solferino for the fake Louis Napoleon!

Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal 2010

My choice evidently pleased him greatly, as he had the utmost contempt for Louis Napoleon, and had always denounced him as a usurper and a charlatan.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Marx s observation, proffered in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, about history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce, has been regurgitated so often...

Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010

Sure we have fake victories like notches on a Winchester 94 buttstock -- Desert Storm and OEF and OIF -- How like Magenta or Solferino for the fake Louis Napoleon!

Michael Vlahos: Mon General McChrystal 2010

Marx's observation, proffered in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, about history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce, has been regurgitated so often...

Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010

I'd known him any time the past ten years; he'd been a special constable with me at the Chartist farce of '48 when I took up old Morrison's truncheon and did his duty for him - me and Gladstone and Louis Napoleon holding the plebeian mob at bay, I don't think.

Fiancée 2010

Yet like her erstwhile lover and longtime friend Louis Napoleon (1808 – 1873, who became Emperor Napoleon III in 1852), she had no regrets when the Second Republic gave way to the Second Empire.

Rachel (Eliza Rachel Felix). 2009

More turmoil came when Napoleon III, Louis Napoleon, the nephew of Napoleon I, sent in a Hapsburg prince, Maximilian I, to rule over Mexico in the 1860s.

Part 1: Mexico at the Turn of the Century 2009