Nannie (Little).
“This world, whose brightest day
Seems to us so dreary,
Nannie found all bright and gay,
Love-alight and cheery,
Stayed a little while to play
And went home unweary.”
Elizabeth Akers Allen, Poems (1866).
Nan´tolet, father of Rosalura and Lillia-Bianca.—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Wild-Goose Chase (1652).
Napoleon I., called by the Germans “Kaiser Kläs” (q.v.).
“M” is curiously coupled with the history of Napoleon I. and III. (See M.)
The following is a curious play on the word Napoleon.
| Napoleôn | apoleôn | poleôn | oleôn | leôn | eôn | ôn | |
| Napoleon | Apollyon | cities | destroying | a lion | going about | } | being. |
That is:
Napoleon Apollyon is [being] a lion going about destroying cities.
Chauvinism, Napoleon idolatry. Chauvvin is a blind idolater of Napoleon I., in Scribe’s drama entitled Soldat Laboureur.