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17 Jan 2015, 12:44 am
Talleyrand himself had served the emperor as foreign minister and trusted ally before switching to the other side as Napoleon’s power waned — and his megalomania grew. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 2:43 am
The Napoleon Community school district in Michigan said that it had already provided a one-on-one support person to help the child at school, and the dog wasn’t needed. [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 9:22 am
Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the French Second Empire swiftly collapsed. [read post]
28 Oct 2021, 7:00 am
I especially liked Professor Colley’s emphasis on autocratic constitutions written by professional soldiers such as Napoleon, since constitutional law scholars focus almost entirely on democracies. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 5:00 pm
Totstoy was a virtuoso fox, dissecting the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon in minute imaginative detail. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm
How about the Napoleonic Complex? [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 9:30 pm
This much became clear during the Jeffersonian era, as waterfront communities thwarted the embargoes and commercial restrictions that aimed to punish European commerce during the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. [read post]
31 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
The “interbellum” designation is important, but I would suggest that the first “bellum” is not the War of 1812, but the Napoleonic Wars, which stretched from 1799-1815. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 4:57 pm
’ – Napoleon Bonaparte‘It’s just a job. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 3:30 am
Conrad’s characters, like the real ones, relentlessly persist in their personal feud through the rise, fall, reemergence, and ultimate exile of Napoleon, as the world transforms around them. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 12:01 pm
Yesterday was the long-postponed, and I hope not annoyingly over-advertised, Zoom session regarding Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 11:30 am
GettyImages: duncan1890In his new book, Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age, Shaviro mines literature on social status and wealth from past eras for parallels to current relationships between capitalism and inequality. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 8:53 am
AR being used by workers in assembly lines to receive additional information (as first popularised by Boeing), and Deepfakes (DFs) facilitating online cross-border conversations by translating in real time into each person's language; Education: e.g DFs being used to deliver interactive lessons to students (Napoleon speaking about the French revolution), or VR bringing schoolchildren back to ancient sites; Entertainment: e.g. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 6:14 am
In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 4:30 am
It is only a series of tiny conceptual steps to go from the French Revolution to nationalism, to total war, to the Napoleonic Code, to the metric system, and then to a weird overestimation of the films of Jerry Lewis. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 7:17 am
Napoleon: ahead of his time? [read post]
22 May 2017, 4:00 am
Originally it meant the science of ideas; but shrewd politicians like Napoleon Bonaparte corrupted it to mean something more pejorative, even sinister. [read post]
13 May 2011, 8:08 am
“By unkindly focusing only on the negative aspect of your ownership, the author, Dave McKenna, is suggesting that you are an avaricious, imperious, conscienceless plutocrat with callous contempt for the fans; a man whose Napoleonic, pouter-pigeon swagger conceals a doofus-like understanding of the game and whose pernicious, autocratic meddling has consigned the team to perpetual mediocrity and its players and coaches to a perennial state of harrowing anxiety, all of this… [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 5:41 am
Covey The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World – Harvey Mackay Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time – Keith Ferrazzi Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill Virtuous Leadership: an Agenda for Personal Excellence – Alexandre Havard The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace – Gary Chapman and Paul White As a Man Thinketh – James Allen Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich… [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 1:52 am
And in light of the demise of the Scruggs Law Firm (three out of four lawyers in a recent survey said, "I'm guilty"), I thought this song, Waterloo, would be the most appropriate, with its prophetic first lines: At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender/ And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way/ The history book on the shelf/ It's always repeating itself. [read post]
