All 7 Uses
Napoleon Bonaparte
in
The Adventures of Augie March
(Edited)
- As she lay in the summer light, tempered by the shades and the catalpa of the front yard, flat on her back with compresses, towels, rags, she had a considerable altitude of trunk, the soles of her feet shining from the sheets like graphite rubbings, feet of war disasters in the ruined villages of Napoleon's Spanish campaign; flies riding in echelon on the long string of the light switch.
Chpt 2Napoleon = French general and emperor who conquered most of continental Europe for a brief time early in the 19th century
- What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?
Chpt 3 *
- And he considered that he had the right to treat me like this, because he was making progress while I was making a fool of myself, and he intended to carry me along with him, when it was time, the way Napoleon did his brothers.
Chpt 4
- Queen Carlotta used to go to chapel near us, and she never forgave the French, because of Napoleon the Third.
Chpt 8
- Nor are lifted straight out after an unlucky tumble, like a Napoleon from the mud of the Arcole where he had been standing up to his thoughtful nose while the Hungarian bullets broke the clay off the bank.
Chpt 9
- Napoleon when he escaped in the old box of a sledge from wintry Russia, the troops of his dead lying like so many flocks covered in snow, talked three days to Caulaincourt who probably couldn't hear very well because his ears were bandaged—his master couldn't practice his old trick of pulling them—but he must have seen in his boss's swollen face the depth that kept floating a whole Europe of details.
Chpt 12
- Now Napoleon was.
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(Napoleon Bonaparte) French general and emperor who ruled (through conquest) most of continental Europe for a brief time (1769-1821)Napoleon rose during the French Revolution, seized power in 1799, and crowned himself emperor in 1804. He expanded French influence through wars across Europe and also passed lasting reforms, especially the Napoleonic Code, which shaped modern civil law in many countries. His failed invasion of Russia (1812) began his decline; he was forced to abdicate, briefly returned to power, and was finally defeated at Waterloo (1815). He died in exile on St. Helena.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, napoleon can refer to a pastry, a card game, or to anyone with that name.