Surely a more serious imitation of a napoleonic attitude would have been more telling and more comic.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
His method was certainly napoleonic, and for its very audacity it should succeed.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
In 1827 he was placed in the Adelige Pension at Moscow, having been previously much influenced by a German nurse who inspired him with a love of German legend and poetry, and also by his tutor, an officer in the napoleonic guard, who had taught him French.
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi