All 3 Uses of
Napoleon Bonaparte
in
Moby Dick
- There is Napoleon; who, upon the top of the column of Vendome, stands with arms folded, some one hundred and fifty feet in the air; careless, now, who rules the decks below; whether Louis Philippe, Louis Blanc, or Louis the Devil.
Chpt 34-36 *Napoleon = French general and emperor who conquered most of continental Europe for a brief time early in the 19th century
- But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.
Chpt 34-36
- Among the more curious of such remains is part of a skull, which in the year 1779 was disinterred in the Rue Dauphine in Paris, a short street opening almost directly upon the palace of the Tuileries; and bones disinterred in excavating the great docks of Antwerp, in Napoleon's time.
Chpt 103-105
Definitions:
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(1)
(Napoleon Bonaparte) French general and emperor who ruled (through conquest) most of continental Europe for a brief time (1769-1821)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, napoleon can refer to a pastry, a card game, or to anyone with that name.