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  2. Les Châtiments - Wikipedia

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    Not satisfied with evil despots and tyrants, Hugo also turns to animalistic imagery as a means of implying that Louis-Napoléon is less than human. References to snakes, crocodiles, worms, bees, wasps and spiders can be found. Hugo reserves the vous form of address for Napoleon Bonaparte. Along with being the polite form of address in French ...

  3. Ordre Moral - Wikipedia

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    The moral order was a coalition of the right that formed after the successive falls of Napoleon III and the provisional republican government. It is also the name of the policy advocated by the government of Albert de Broglie under the presidency of Marshal Patrice de Mac Mahon starting from 27 May 1873.

  4. Cultural depictions of Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseur à Cheval, with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture. The Napoleon Bonaparte Monument in Warsaw, Poland A French Empire mantel clock representing Mars and Venus, an allegory of the wedding of Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.

  5. Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

  6. Napoleon's Tomb (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Napoleon's Tomb' (French title: L'Apothéose de Napoléon) is an 1821 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An allegory , it depicts the apotheosis of the former emperor of France Napoleon following his death in exile on the island of Saint Helena .

  7. Voices: ‘Napoleon’ is more progressive than you think

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    The problem with Napoleon is that it knows how to lie a little too credibly. Its battle scenes, for example, have an air of expertise. Its battle scenes, for example, have an air of expertise.

  8. On the Freedom of the Will - Wikipedia

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    Schopenhauer began by analyzing the basic concepts of freedom and self-consciousness. He asserted that there are three types of freedom; physical, intellectual, and moral (the terms were sometimes used in philosophy, as he shows in chapter four). Physical freedom is the absence of physical obstacles to actions. This negative approach can also ...

  9. In Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Political Ambition Is Both ...

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    The new film is an anti-epic about the petty awfulness of history's great men.