Napoléonian

A form of Napoleonian — Of or relating to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Meanings

adjectiveNapoléonian (comparative more Napoléonian, superlative most Napoléonian)

comparative more Napoléonian · superlative most Napoléonian

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Napoleonian.

    The Napoléonian nobility, the diplomatic body, the dignitaries actually in office, seem to have a predilection for this quarter.

    1835, Jules Lefebvre, editor, Proverbes Dramatiques of Mr. Théodore Leclercq, Illustrative of Modern French Manners and Conversation; with Incidental Explanatory Notes in English, London: Longman, Rees, Orme and Co., and J. Harris and Son; Liverpool: Evans, Chegwin and Hall, page iii
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    To some extent the Napoléonian reorganisation can be regarded as the outcome of the long term evolution of the schooling provision, even if it represented a radically new start.

    1985, Arbeitskreis für Moderne Sozialgeschichte, Bildungsbürgertum im 19. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, →ISBN, page 458

    The French travellers can be differentiated socially and historically, first of all, into two groups: university travellers, i.e., in the Napoléonian meaning of the word, people working in faculties as well as in lycées, on the left side and in the bottom left-hand corner of Diagram 3, and non-university travellers, i.e. librarians, amateurs, archivists, and grands établissements personnel, on the right side and in the bottom right-hand corner of the diagram.

    2004, Jean-Christophe Bourquin, “National Influences on International Scientific Activity: The Case of the French Missions Littéraires in Europe, 1842–1914”, in Christophe Charle, Jürgen Schriewer, Peter Wagner, editors, Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the Search for Cultural Identities, Frankfurt; New York, N.Y.: Campus Verlag, →ISBN, part III (Network Formation and Mobility Patterns in an Emerging World Society), page 463

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