Napoleonolatry

English Etymology en :af Napoleon -olatry 1 1 Pronunciation en /nəˌpəʊli.əˈnɒlətɹi/ UK en ɒlətɹi 7 Noun - Excessive admiration or glorification of Napoleon. en Bonapartolatry en 1862 Andrew Bell Men & Things in America or the Experiences of a Year’s Residence int he United States iv https://books.google.com/books?id=9mROnGwBKowC&pg=PR4 In 1838, the year this work first appeared, the Orleanist dynasty seemed to be firmly set up and likely to endure, for the lifetime of its founder at least; but well says the French proveb, “fr L’homme propose, mais c’est Dieu qui dispose.” Yet the younger branch of the Bourbons may have its la resurgam as well as the older line—for a time: this the rather, as Napoleonolatry, or Man-devil worship, is much on the decline, even among the brute “masses,” and is utterly repudiated among the upper and middle classes, of the French people. en 1890 The Fortnightly Review 215 https://books.google.com/books?id=rklOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA215 From that time forward all the energies of his Adam Mickiewicz’s soul were devoted to the propagation of the new faith; his lectures at the Collège de France were sermons from which he could no more exclude his mysticism and Napoleonolatry than Mr. Dick could keep King Charles’s head out of his most business-like compositions. en 1913 The Real Martyr of St. Helena 9 https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys0wAQAAIAAJ Moreover, the worship of mere brute force—the glorification of might against right—which is at the bottom of Napoleonolatry, has created the bastard imperialism which is one of the curses of our time. en 1925 Charles Henry Conrad Wright C. H. C. Wright A History of French literature 1 728 https://books.google.com/books?id=EXo6AAAAMAAJ Quinet’s first writings, then, reflect Herder and the German influence. The Essai sur Herder (1827) was followed not long after by Ahasvérus, a symbolic prose poem of the Wandering Jew and of humanity in search of the ideal, Napoléon, an epic belonging to the period of Napoleonolatry of the Monarchy of July, and Prométhée, also in verse, proclaiming the victory of freedom over determinism. Related terms en Napoleonolater Translations French: fr napoléonolâtrie f