lanche Willis Howard, _Guenn_.

=Nannie=, Miss Fleming, daughter of a farmer in the parish of Tarbolton,
in Ayrshire. Immortalized by R. Burns.

_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 Kl[:a]s" (_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.

Napole[^o]n apole[^o]n pole[^o]n ole[^o]n le[^o]n e[^o]n [^o]n
_Napoleon_ _Apollyon_ _cities_ _destroying_ _a lion_ _going_} _being._
_about_}

That is:

Napoleon Apollyon is [_being_] a lion going about destroying cities.

_Chauvinism_, Napoleon idolatry. Chauvvin[TN-28] is a blind idolater of
Napoleon I., in Scribe's drama entitled _Soldat Laboureur_.

=Napoleon III.= _His nicknames._

ARENENBERG (_Comte d'_). So he called himself after his escape from
the fortress of Ham.

BADINGUET, the name of the man he shot in his Boulogne escapade.

BOUSTRAPA, a compound of Bou[logne], Stra[sbourg] and Pa[ris], the
places of his noted escapades.

GROSBEC. So called from the rather unusual size of his nose.

MAN OF DECEMBER. So called because December was his month of glory.
Thus, he was elected president December 11, 1848; made his _coup
d'['e]tat_ December 2, 1851; and was created emperor December 2,
1852.

MAN OF SEDAN. So called because at Sedan he surrendered his sword
to the king of Prussia (September, 1870).

RATIPOLE, same as the west of England RANTIPOLE, a harum-scarum,
half idiot, half madcap.

THE LITTLE. Victor Hugo gave him this title; but the hatred of Hugo
to Napoleon was monomania.

VERHUEL, the name of his supposed father.

_Number 2._ The second of the month was Louis Napoleon's day. It was
also one of the days of his uncle, the other being the fifteenth.

The _coup d'['e]tat_ was December 2; he was made emperor December 2, 1852;
the Franco-Prussian war opened at Saarbr[:u]ck, August 2, 1870; he
surrendered his sword to