1. Bonaparte - Noun
2. Bonaparte - Proper noun
French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
Source: WordNetEuropeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor. Loretta Napoleoni
If there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere. Charles Fort
Fatal consequences of the bloody war against Bonaparte in Spain. And other emphatic caprices. Francisco Goya
[I don't] care a twopenny damn what [becomes] of the ashes of Napoleon Bonaparte. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. Abraham Lincoln
I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. Charles de Gaulle