From
Napoleon
+
-ic
.
Napoleonic
(
not
comparable
)
- Alternative form of
Napoleonic
1854
, Adolphus Louis Kœppen, “Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa. Their Political Geography from the Close of the Thirteenth Century to the Middle of the Fifteenth. A. D. 1300?1453.”, in
The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography,
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, New York, N.Y.:
D. Appleton and Company
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; London:
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, section II (Central Europe), subsection IX (Kingdom of Hungary), subsubsection III (number 564; the Republic of Ragusa), page
186
, column 1:
This small but highly intelligent people deserve the more our attention, because it was the only one of all the
Slavic States
that had adopted a republican form of government, which it succeeded in maintaining by bravery and shrewd policy between powerful neighbors until it was swept away by the storms of the
Napoleonic
wars.
1996
,
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
, pages
304?305
:
Louis-Napoleon, who developed perforce into a master of public relations, did no less. With considerable difficulty he enlisted the begrudging recognition he needed from the
Napoleonic
clan (Thompson 38), and in lieu of Dimitri’s seal, he used everywhere the emblem of the imperial eagle.
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]
Moreover, the caricature journals of the mid-century thrived on exploiting the discrepancies between Louis’s conduct and the
Napoleonic
grandeur he strove to appropriate in apparel and action.
2003
,
Amir D. Aczel
, “A New Bonaparte”, in
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
, Washington Square Press,
→ISBN
:
Louis-Napoleon was plucked out of the water and, with many of his men, taken to the local prison. This time, the prince was not so lucky. When a few days later he was again brought before the King of the French, the latter was much less worried about reviving the
Napoleonic
mystique than he had been earlier.
2008
, Lesley H. Walker, “Nostalgia and Maternal Loss”, in
A Mother’s Love: Crafting Feminine Virtue in Enlightenment France
, Lewisburg, Pa.:
Bucknell University Press
,
→ISBN
, section “Madame de Stael”, page
180
:
To write such a novel in
Napoleonic
France was certainly a gamble: already by 1800, Napoleon was barely tolerating Stael’s presence in Paris.
2019
, Timothy Fitzpatrick, “Introduction”, in
The Long Shadow of Waterloo: Myths, Memories and Debates
, Oxford, Philadelphia, Pa.:
Casemate Publishers
,
→ISBN
:
Hugo’s family was directly tied to the
Napoleonic
legend and found a way to admire Napoleon but not be trapped by his Bonapartist legacy.