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In Mainland China, a similar product also marketed as a Napoleon (拿破侖; Nápòlún, or more commonly, 法式千層酥) varies between regions and individual bakeries, but usually features a top and bottom layer of rough puff pastry, typically made with vegetable shortening rather than butter, and a sponge cake and artificial buttercream ...
Tompouce is difficult to eat. The cakes are usually served with tea, beer, or coffee, and in formal settings are eaten with pastry forks.But the hard biscuit-like layers, which squash the pastry cream when trying to cut a piece off, make this difficult and messy, inspiring the humorous article "Hoe eet je een tompoes?"
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last monarch of France. Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.
The quote is often labelled as "attributed" to Napoleon or given with a warning that he may not have said it, [1] but Napoleon specialist and Fondation Napoléon historian Peter Hicks declares that Napoleon never said "Laissons la Chine dormir, car quand elle se réveillera, le monde tremblera" (Let China sleep, for when she awakes, the world ...
Napoleon is a fictional character and the main antagonist of George Orwell's 1945 novella Animal Farm. [2] While he is at first a common farm pig, he exiles Snowball, another pig, who is his rival for power, and then takes advantage of the animals' uprising against their masters to eventually become the tyrannical "President" of Animal Farm, which he turns into a dictatorship, eventually ...
Napoleon is featured in Assassin's Creed Unity as a supporting character. He also appears as the main antagonist in its downloadable content mission, Dead Kings. Napoleon is a frequently used leader representing the French civilisation in the Civilization series. Napoleon appears in Scribblenauts and its sequels as someone the player can summon.
Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit (French: Napoléon Ier reçoit la reine de Prusse à Tilsitt, 6 juillet 1807) is an 1837 history painting by the French artist Nicolas Gosse. [1] It depicts a scene on 6 July 1807 during the negotiations of the Treaty of Tilsit during the Napoleonic Wars .