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  • It can hardly be denied that the fate of the Bonapartes was a hard one.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Charlemagne to the last of the Bonapartes is a long stride down the ages; but there was never a time in all these years when men might make reckonings in the arithmetic of European politics without taking into account the prestige, the power, and even the primacy of France.

    The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916

  • It can hardly be denied that the fate of the Bonapartes was a hard one.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • In smaller roles, Chuck Young embeds a subtle gentleness in the boxing trainer Tokio; Mick Tinder makes the gangster Eddie Fuseli sinister but not cartoonish; and Stan Shulman is hilarious as the Bonapartes 'Schopenhauer-quoting neighbor Mr. Carp "It looks like the coffin for a baby," he says gloomily of a violin case.

    'Golden Boy's' soft touch lands hard knocks Celia Wren 2010

  • We need not recall how the Bourbon princes trampled under foot till 1789 the growing spirit of democracy among their subjects; or how under Louis Philippe the bourgeoisie quietly absorbed all the powers and all the honors of the state; or how the Bonapartes flattered the people with plebiscites which bore false witness.

    After the Bastille 2008

  • We need not recall how the Bourbon princes trampled under foot till 1789 the growing spirit of democracy among their subjects; or how under Louis Philippe the bourgeoisie quietly absorbed all the powers and all the honors of the state; or how the Bonapartes flattered the people with plebiscites which bore false witness.

    After the Bastille 2008

  • Perhaps if I got to spend more time there, I'd see what emerges in the negative space that the Bourbons and Bonapartes left.

    princeofcairo: So, A Month Ago, I Was In Paris princeofcairo 2009

  • “After the first Napoleon died, the second Napoleon gave up trying to expand his empire, and the other countries recognized the Bonapartes as the royal family of France.”

    Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009

  • The Boal family are connected to the Bonapartes through a son of Eugene de Beauharnais, Empress Josephine's son.

    The Boal Mansion and the Columbus Chapel elena maria vidal 2009

  • The French had the Bonapartes, we had the Civil War.

    An Opening Manifesto 2009

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