Bibliograph

Napoleon, life, legacy, and image : a biography, Alan Forrest

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Napoleon, life, legacy, and image : a biography, Alan Forrest

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-385) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Napoleon

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

778422052

Responsibility statement

Alan Forrest

Sub title

life, legacy, and image : a biography

Summary

From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creation

Table Of Contents

Paris, 1840 -- Corsican beginnings -- Son of the revolution -- Bonaparte in Italy -- Lure of the orient -- First consul -- From consulate to empire -- Quest for glory -- A vision of civil society -- The reinvention of monarchy -- From the peninsula to Leipzig -- The hundred days -- Years of exile -- Life after death

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