Napoleonism

English

Etymology

Napoleon +‎ -ism

Noun

Napoleonism (uncountable)

  1. Support for the dynasty of the Napoleons.
    • 1926, Sisley Huddleston, France, London: Ernest Benn Limited, pages 151–152 and 257:
      And when France was reduced to her proper proportions, when Napoléonism with its repressions passed, there was left upon France and upon Europe a deathless mark. […] There was the reaction against the first Emperor, and then, as always happens, when the memory of the reverse side of glory has been obliterated by the passage of a generation or two, there was a revival of Napoléonism.
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