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- proper noun Napoleon Bonaparte.
- proper noun A male
given name sometimes given in honor of the French emperor. - noun A twenty-franc gold
coin , once used inFrance - noun The foremost authority or leader in a given field
- noun uncountable The
card game nap
Etymologies
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ANDREW ROBERTS, AUTHOR, "NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON": Well, there are an awful lot of books on Napoleon and an awful lot on Wellington, but this actually is the first one that is about both men, the way they interacted and the way they thought about one another and the way they fought one another.
Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It
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Because Napoleon was short, overly aggressive men of short stature are sometimes said to have a Napoleon complex.
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Napoleon appeared in 1912-1914, the work of a well-known German specialist, F.M. Kircheisen, _Napoleon I: sein Leben und seine Zeit_.
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I WOULD CALL HIM NAPOLEON_, but Napoleon made his way to empire _over broken oaths and through a sea of blood.
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Run but the Americans didn't, and when I got to France I paid a napoleon to see Napoleon with his boney apart.
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NAPOLEON I, 1804 {after the style of the ancient "Columbaria." to 1814 {Every effort was made to surround Napoleon I
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Three years later, faced with a Bourbon royalist challenge, he staged a coup, changed the name of the Second Republic to the Second Empire, and took the title Napoleon III.
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Louis-Napoleon Oui-Oui was elected to the presidency of France after the Revolution of 1848, becoming Emperor of the French under the name Napoleon III.
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Louis-Napoleon Oui-Oui was elected to the presidency of France after the Revolution of 1848, becoming Emperor of the French under the name Napoleon III.
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In the ordinary sense of the term Napoleon was not a tyrant to his own nation.
vendingmachine commented on the word Napoleon
After Waterloo, Napoleon was, well, cut to size. He abdicated power and was eventually captured by the British and placed in permanent exile on the remote, stony Atlantic isle of St Helena. There, he died in 1821, in circumstances that are debated to this day.
These and other pieces of Napoleon supposedly came into the hands of an Italian priest. That apparently included the French commander's penis.
From there, the trail of Napoleon's alleged member gets a bit cloudy. It went from the priest's family to a London bookseller — the item was politely listed in a catalogue as “a mummified tendon” — to a counterpart across the pond in Philadelphia. In 1927, these effects were exhibited in New York at the Museum of French Arts.
A Time magazine journalist attended the event, gazed at Napoleon's penis, and was not all that impressed. The publication likened it to “a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace.” Another newspaper described it as a “shriveled eel.”
June 20, 2015
TankHughes commented on the word Napoleon
His name is associated with a pastry, a brandy, and a short person psychological issue.
October 3, 2015
slumry commented on the word Napoleon
Not to mention the Napoleonic Wars
October 3, 2015