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Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young.  (source)
    Napoleon = French general and emperor who conquered most of continental Europe for a brief time early in the 19th century
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    Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, and a lot of kings named Louis.  (source)
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    But he liked to rib me about where I was in the book, in a war part or in a peace part, and if there was anything in there about Napoleon's days as a hip-hop dancer.  (source)
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    Napoleon felt no more real to me than Jean Valjean.  (source)
    Napoleon = French general and emperor who conquered most of continental Europe for a brief time early in the 19th century
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    NAPOLEON Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.  (source)
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    The coat of arms from the door of Napoleon's coronation carriage hung on the wall in the study.  (source)
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    You look over at the next player and say, 'Wow— Napoleon Bonaparte was the original inspiration for Beethoven's Third Symphony, but as legend has it, the composer's opinion of the man changed when he saw the liberator become a tyrant.†  (source)
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    They haven't exactly been discussing Napoleon's white horse in the back seat!  (source)
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    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?"†  (source)
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    The men referred to him by a host of nicknames, including the Animal, the Big Flag, Little Napoleon, and, most often, the Bird, a name chosen because it carried no negative connotation that could get the POWs beaten.  (source)
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    Think what Ford, Edison, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Julius Caesar would do.†  (source)
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    Then he presented himself to Sofia as General Mack had presented himself to Napoleon, having let the Russian army slip through his grasp.  (source)
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    You talk as if you thought you was Napoleon Bonaparte.†  (source)
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    Beatrice's stepbrother was identified as Napoleon Bridger Leep.  (source)
    Napoleon = another person with that name
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    Somewhere along the Avenue Napoleon, I heard the step behind me which I knew to be Armand's.  (source)
    Napoleon = the name of a street
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    The painter remarked to Swann that Napoleon III had eclipsed himself immediately after Odette.  (source)
    Napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
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    Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico.  (source)
    Napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
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    Are you friends with Napoleon Bridger Leep?  (source)
    Napoleon = another person with that name
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    Strange how I wandered out of the cafe then, circling the ruined theater, wandering finally towards the broad Avenue Napoleon and following it towards the palace of the Louvre.  (source)
    Napoleon = the name of a street
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    Why was Napoleon III a criminal when he was taken prisoner at Boulogne, and why, later on, were those criminals whom he arrested?  (source)
    Napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
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    He was walking with Mme. Verdurin, Dr. Cottard, a young man in a fez whom he failed to identify, the painter, Odette, Napoleon III and my grandfather, along a path which followed the line of the coast, and overhung the sea, now at a great height, now by a few feet only, so that they were continually going up and down; those of the party who had reached the downward slope were no longer visible to those who were still climbing; what little daylight yet remained was failing, and it seemed as though a black night was immediately to fall on them.  (source)
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    And Roy knew he'd never see Napoleon Bridger again, unless he wanted to be seen.  (source)
    Napoleon = another person with that name
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    But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets-as vast and indestructible as nature itself.  (source)
    Napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
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    Equally little does this view explain why for several centuries the collective will is not withdrawn from certain rulers and their heirs, and then suddenly during a period of fifty years is transferred to the Convention, to the Directory, to Napoleon, to Alexander, to Louis XVIII, to Napoleon again, to Charles X, to Louis Philippe, to a Republican government, and to Napoleon III.  (source)
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    As for Napoleon III, it was to Forcheville that some vague association of ideas, then a certain modification of the Baron's usual physiognomy, and lastly the broad ribbon of the Legion of Honour across his breast, had made Swann give that name; but actually, and in everything that the person who appeared in his dream represented and recalled to him, it was indeed Forcheville.  (source)
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    Napoleon Bridger, is that you?  (source)
    Napoleon = another person with that name
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