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
It was there in 1802 that he experimented on the Augronne River with a miniature steamboat, tried without success to interest Josephine and the Great Buonaparte in his invention.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Buonaparte in his scrounging days amused the salons by decking himself in napkins and tablecloths to give improvisations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments."
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be so, say I, but they would not have driven away the spirit; one may laugh at the individual signs; no one then, not even Buonaparte himself, laughed at the whole.
From In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Reuter, Fritz
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