Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Napoleon

One French Republican, by writing and analyzing, has produced the following:–

http://books.google.com/books?id=aqZTuzkSntYC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1#PPA38,M1

Which, being arranged in the form of a sentence, gives, ‘Napoleon on o leon leon eon apoleon poleon‘–which is the Greek for ‘Napoleon, being the lion of the people, was marching on, destroying the cities!‘

– Appleton Morgan, Macaronic Poetry, 1872

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