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29 Nov 2023, 7:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
If you were Napoleon, who seemed to love books as much as he loved military power — he didn’t just amass a vast collection of them, but kept a personal librarian to oversee it — you’d take it a big step further. [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 4:17 pm by Christine Corcos
Contrary to what one could have deduced from art. 2 and 17 of the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, where property had been elevated as a natural right, imprescriptible, inviolable, and sacred, and art. 537 and 544 of the Code civil, where the owners had been given the right to use in the most absolute way and dispose freely of their property, neither the Revolutionary nor the Napoleonic lawmakers thought of the right of disposing freely of one’s… [read post]
8 Sep 2023, 4:17 pm
Contrary to what one could have deduced from art. 2 and 17 of the Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen, where property had been elevated as a natural right, imprescriptible, inviolable, and sacred, and art. 537 and 544 of the Code civil, where the owners had been given the right to use in the most absolute way and dispose freely of their property, neither the Revolutionary nor the Napoleonic lawmakers thought of the right of disposing freely of one’s… [read post]
5 Nov 2011, 11:27 am by Edward
Napoleon Bracy Jr., D-Prichard, for using his official letterhead to advocate leniency for a brother-in-law convicted of a federal drug offense. [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 10:00 am by Joseph Allen
We’ve been trying to drive the federal R&D system with the parking brake on. [read post]
19 May 2015, 4:52 am by Tim Kevan
Kind of a posh English version of Napoleon Dynamite with the sort of face which looks as if it’s constantly […] [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Britain was fighting a war against Napoleon in France, and to that end, enforced a naval blockade to cut off trade to France. [read post]
26 May 2021, 10:59 am by Nathan Dorn
The Conseil d’Etat, or Council of State, then took up discussion of the draft in July 1801. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 10:19 pm by Buce
  In either event, it is said to describe "Napoleon’s execution of the Duc d’Enghien in 1804." [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:19 am by South Florida Lawyers
”(Actually, I just tried it out on a summer associate a few minutes ago -- he didn't seem to mind).Speaking of books, here is Richman Greer attorney and Palm Beach County Bar Association President Michael Napoleone on the best business books he's read:Best business books you've read: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, and Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath… [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 3:15 am
If Cafe NAPOLEON had a food truck, why wouldn't it call the truck CAFE NAPOLEON? [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 6:44 am by Jeanine Cali
For a few years, the revolutionaries implemented a new calendar in which the traditional seven-day week was replaced by ten-day “décades” – Napoleon did away with that and returned to the standard Gregorian calendar. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 8:25 am by Sheldon Toplitt
The plaintiff claimed Dunlap represented to it that she held the rights to the hit spy series that ran from 1964-1968 and made international stars of Robert Vaughn (Napoleon Solo) and David McCallum (Illya Kuryakin).Anchor Bay, Starz Media's DVD distribution unit, gave Dunlap $500,000 for U.N.C.L.E. masters and another $125,000 for DVD extra footage pursuant to a 2005 contract. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 5:11 pm by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
We all loved it, thought it was hilarious, it was played on the radio... and then it was gone... squelched by political correctness back before we'd seen enough political correctness to say "political correctness. [read post]
12 May 2015, 7:49 am
I questioned whether I'd ever seen the word "mountebank" in the newspaper, so I searched the NYT archive — all the way back to 1852 — and got 782 hits, beginning with "Really, this Louis NAPOLEON is a very provoking fellow" ("the appearance of the mountebank in the character of a king").Quite a few of the hits were repetitions of H.L. [read post]
6 May 2010, 3:28 am by Russ Bensing
Napoleon is supposed to have said that he preferred lucky generals to good ones. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 7:27 am
THE LAW OF NATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE FRENCH SATELLITE STATES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC AGE (1789-1815), R.C.H. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 2:40 pm
Some recent publications in law and literature:Conter, Claude, Justitiabilität und Rechtmässigkeit : Verrechtlichungsprozesse von Literatur und Film in der Moderne (Rodopi, 2010).Conter, Claude, Literatur und Recht im Vormärz (Aisthesis, 2010).Darnton, Robert, The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander From Louis XIV to Napoleon (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010).Frank, Catherine, Law, literature, and the transmission of culture in England, 1837-1925 (Ashgate,… [read post]