What is "bonapartist"

Usage examples of "bonapartist".

She had never been a Bonapartist, yet that distaste had not made it any easier for her to leave France and follow an army that must fight against her countrymen.

I understand it, the French officers who oversee the construction are strongly Bonapartist, in others hesitant or downright for the King.

With a favourable wind I shall look into Malta for possible but improbable reinforcements and the latest intelligence from those parts, and then proceed to Durazzo and beyond for the purpose of strengthening royalists and of capturing or destroying Bonapartist or- privateering ships.

Whewell had just given me his report on Ragusa Vecchio, where that Bonapartist frigate is lying.

Republicans of the past and of the future, to throw stones at good citizens in order to conceal the misconduct of the old Bonapartist Administration which still is charged with the care of our armies.

He tore the lilied flag from the citadel tower, and in its place raised the tricolor, which for a decade and a half was to fly before Bonapartist armies as they swept over Europe.

He proclaimed a jealous regard for the truth to be the highest ideal of historical research, meaning by that the absolute truth, not any Bonapartist or Bourbon version.

Still, when Napoleon finally fell from power, and when, on April 19, 1814, the Allies marched into Grenoble, Champollion wondered bitterly whether a government of laws would now actually replace Bonapartist tyranny and saw little hope of any such consummation.

There was a Lemercier on the list of secondary suspects that Maggie had given him, a Bonapartist officer if he recalled correctly.

Of their three suspects, the Bonapartist had the best motive for creating disruptions.

Was the general an ardent enough Bonapartist to risk his personal happiness in a treacherous plot?

Maggie nodded with satisfaction, then prepared to call on a gossipy woman who was an expert on the upper levels of Bonapartist society.

Roussaye frowned over the notes he had made after visiting a dozen clubs and cafes where Bonapartist officers gathered to drink and gamble and reminisce about the glorious days of the empire.

Where he fails, or where the Bonapartist fire is most telling, is in the account of the Egyptian expedition.

As for the vile scandal about Hortense and Napoleon, there is little doubt that it was spread by the Bonapartist family for interested motives.