Napoleon I
Also known as: Napoleon I, Napoléon Ier, Napoléon 1er, Napoléon premier, Napoléon Bonaparte, le grand Napoléon
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Show in diary 23 mentions Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821), Emperor of the French 1804–1814/15 (Wikipedia). For Marie he is the measure of greatness, beside Alexander and Caesar, and the founder of the dynasty she supports as a Bonapartist. Bare plural «les Napoléon» (the family) is not tagged here.
- The hero she weeps for. Reading history: «la même histoire pour Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène» (031.0161); «Chaque fois que je relis l'histoire je pleure Napoléon, Alexandre et César» (102.0347); against the English «bourreaux de Napoléon le Grand» (085.0497) — «Ils ont laissé mourir Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, ça c'est un crime immense» (101.0472).
- Politics. She admits supreme power only «quand cet homme est un héros comme Napoléon Ier» (089.0207), and mocks the pious Bonapartists who call «le grand Napoléon presque de tyran, d'ogre, de monstre» (087.0842).
- A face and a pose. Waxworks of 1873 (006.0199, 008.0025); her joke «poses de Napoléon» at Nice in 1875 (050.0583–0585, 050.0796); faces compared to his: a girl «taillé dans de l'ivoire comme celui de Napoléon Ier» (073.0416), the eyes of «Napoléon I» against Cassagnac's (086.0095), a young man — «tu as beau ressembler à Napoléon Ier» (081.0465).
- Places and pictures. The Arc de Triomphe (063.0053), the ruined forts on the Rhine «Napoléon (le vrai)» destroyed (081.0531), David's Distribution des aigles at Versailles (105.0194).
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