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Excerpt from British Radicals and 'Legitimacy': Napoleon in the Mirror of History by Stuart Semmel

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The introduction of ‘legitimacy’ into British political discourse seems to have been directly connected to the peculiar case of Napoleon. His superficial similarity to a king, in the wake of France’s republican experiment, made it necessary to distinguish him from other monarchs by dwelling on the quality he lacked, that of hereditary descent from a line of kings. Perhaps the earliest appearance of the new usage came in 1801, when the True Briton newspaper contrasted the ‘obtrusive upstart’ Napoleon with France’s ‘legitimate Monarchs’. The adjective occurred frequently in discussions of Napoleon (an 1803 broad-side, for example, called on the French to remove Bonaparte from ‘his usurped station . . . and hail the return of their legitimate prince’). The ultra-loyalist journalist Lewis Goldsmith employed the word frequently — as when he bemoaned Napoleon’s placing members of his own ‘bastard family on the thrones of ancient legitimate monarchs’. Goldsmith, in accusing the entire Bonaparte clan of bastardy, was not claiming that every member had been born out of wedlock. The new meaning rather accused Napoleon and his siblings of having been born outside of dynasty. Even as we chart the emergence of the new usage, however, Goldsmith’s language should remind us that the older meaning lurked underneath the surface (as it perhaps still lurks). The double meaning was present in contemporaries’ minds, as occasional wordplay suggested — not least because it was a common loyalist tactic to question the purity of Napoleon’s mother, and thus Napoleon's paternity. . .

Dobrideny, ohhh ja ihr lest richtig, heute ein fast schon überpünktlicher Schlafreport. Möchte das ihr entspannt und mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht das restliche Faschingswochenende verbringt und das macht man bekanntlich mit diesem Block 😉

Als ob das nicht schon genug wäre, kann ich euch von fast 7h Schlaf ohne Unterbrechung berichten...wow wann gab es das zuletzt?

Aber leider gibt es kein Licht ohne Schatten. Bereits vor einigen Wochen hat meine Lieblingsbäckerei um die Ecke geschlossen 😢 Nie wieder Semmeln, Vollkornbrötchen oder Schwarzbrot vom Suffa....mir wird ganz anders wenn ich an Ostern ohne Semmelbretzeln denke. Die nächsten Samstage werden Brötchen aus anderer Quelle getestet, heute der "Äußere Bäck".

Ich gebe den Brötchen eine 7 von 10 waren okay...kann das ganze noch nicht objektiv beurteilen, bin zu sentimental und vermisse meinen alten Bäcker.