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The creole elites’ resentment over the reinstatement of pre-Napoleonic policy allowed the search for independence to spark.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

A hapless housebreaker and a credulous co-conspirator, his criminal misadventures were equaled only by his skill escaping from the dungeons and bagnes that passed for a penal system in the pre-Napoleonic era.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2011

Her soft accents fell naturally into p�tois; she was a born mimic, and interspersed fragments of plaintive songs, old as the tragedy of slavery or the romance of a pre-Napoleonic France.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

In essentials, though not in all respects, there was a return to the situation of pre-Napoleonic times.

From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin

A century has passed since Carnot and Jones wrote, and the ideas in which they had been educated were those of the pre-Napoleonic era.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various