Brewer's: Jupiter Scapin

A nickname of Napoleon Bonaparte, given him by the Abbé de Pradt. Scapin is a valet famous for his knavish tricks, in Molière's comedy of Les Fourberies de Scapin.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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