Bonaparte (Noun)
Meaning
French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Napoleon Bonaparte's military conquests expanded the French Empire, but his disastrous invasion of Russia led to his downfall.
- The French general Bonaparte seized power in a coup d'état in 1799 and became the ruler of France.
- Bonaparte's ambition and strategic genius led him to victories in Italy and Egypt, earning him great fame and admiration.
- The rise of Bonaparte to power marked the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the Napoleonic Empire.
- Bonaparte's exile to the island of Elba in 1814 was short-lived, as he escaped and regained power for a brief period known as the Hundred Days.