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The air was full of the -boom-boom, boom-boom, boomaboom, boomaboom, boom-boom, Vive L"Empereur" and the columns were splashing through the stream, the whole plain smothered in French infantry marching beneath countless Eagles towards the thin defensive line that was still being shelled by the guns on the Cascajal.
Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981
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I was close to one of our Generals, who stood watch in hand, when suddenly at 12 o'clock mid-day the French drums and bugles sounded the charge, and with a shout, 'Vive l'Empereur' repeated over and over again by some 50,000 men, a shout that was enough to strike terror into the enemy.
General Gordon Saint and Soldier J. Wardle
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It is needless to say that the cry of 'Vive l'Empereur' was repeated twice at each decoration.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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The air resounded with cries of 'Vive l'Empereur', and there was neither officer nor soldier who did not count on a victory next day.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Then, for the twentieth time perhaps, the cry of 'Vive l'Empereur' sprang to the lips of all, the 'Te Deum' was chanted, and 'their Majesties left the church in the same manner as they had entered.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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How did you feel when the cry was raised, 'Vive l'Empereur'?
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'Vive l'Empereur' till those frowning mountains over there echo with my shouts -- and I'll have none of your English stiffness and reserve and curbing of enthusiasm to-day.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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How did you feel when the cry was raised, 'Vive l'Empereur'?
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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The air resounded with cries of 'Vive l'Empereur', and there was neither officer nor soldier who did not count on a victory next day.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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It is needless to say that the cry of 'Vive l'Empereur' was repeated twice at each decoration.
Recollections of the private life of Napoleon Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 1895
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