Buonaparte
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Saint Augustine de Buonaparte has actually run for president during every cycle since 1996.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015
Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments."
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Desiree did, and a lucky thing too, for on the morrow whom was she to meet but the assistant to the deputy for Marseille, a young man named Joseph Buonaparte.
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Young Buonaparte in his scrounging days amused the salons by decking himself in napkins and tablecloths to give improvisations.
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Born at Millom just before the series of naval victories which closed the eighteenth century, he passed his boyhood in the thick of the Buonaparte struggle and shared in it personally when a mere lad.
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett
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