Bonapartism

/ ˈbəʊnəpɑːˌtɪzəm /

noun

1. a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
2. (esp in France) support for the government or dynasty of Napoleon Bonaparte

Derived Forms

• ˈBonaˌpartist, noun

Example Sentences

His volume on Bonapartism was a study of the chief political opponent of Prussian supremacy.

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They had talked quite freely before him, consulted with him when local Bonapartism appeared uncomfortably rampant.

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The Radicals, always upon the scent of Bonapartism, have made much ado about the presence of that personage.

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It was thought expedient to strike Bonapartism heavily, in the very place where it had first exploded.

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In this way, not democracy, but Bonapartism, appears in Marx's eyes as the final form of bourgeois power.

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