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Napoleon

noun

French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821). Synonyms: Bonaparte, Little Corporal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I.

A rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream.

A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes. Synonym: nap.

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... causes of war, but among these causes they must be insignificant as compared with other causes that neither arise from abstract thought nor are greatly modified by reason in any way. Consider the influence of Napoleon (himself so little a product of any philosophical influence), as compared with Hegel; or of Bismarck as compared with Nietzsche, and this will be apparent. There are in the course of the centuries books and ...

— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge

... carry on his work. It is to be feared that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was rather stingy to him. Edward Everett once made an eloquent address in his behalf to the legislature, but it had no effect. Louis Napoleon's munificent offers could not induce him to return to Paris, for he believed that more important work was to be done in the new world,— which, by the way, he considered the oldest portion of ...

— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns

... something else, entirely by surprise. A tripartite alliance of great powers had suddenly started into life; the Egyptian host was swept from the conquered plains of Asia Minor and Syria by English blue-jackets; St. Jean d'Acre, which had baffled the great Napoleon, was bombarded and taken by a British fleet; and the whole fortunes of the world in a moment seemed changed, ...

— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli

... with a heart of stone, and fully conscious of his personal unpopularity. Yet he valued wealth—valued it for the power it gave him over men. Under that cold, hardened exterior reigned an ambition as profound as that which moved Napoleon. He was ambitious of regulating the financial operations of the land, and proud of his power in this respect, and it should be remembered in his favor that he did not abuse that power after it had passed ...

— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... slept a moment that night. And no more did the Gilmores or "Harriet" or John the Baptist or even the senator or the Californian. The play, second act, was cut without mercy and rushed to a close to let its hero and heroine off at Napoleon, which Ned called a "future city" but which, some years later, became a former city, by melting into thin air, or thick water, and leaving not so much behind as a ...

— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

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