Author: John Eldred Howard
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021211262
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Languages : en
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Napoleon Bonaparte is one of history's most charismatic and enigmatic figures. In this compelling collection of letters and documents, John Eldred Howard traces Napoleon's meteoric rise to power and sheds light on his complex personality and motivations. Packed with fascinating insights and historical detail, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and legacy of Napoleon. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French.)
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: John Eldred Howard
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022892347
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This first volume of John Eldred Howard's magisterial four-part study of Napoleon explores the rise of the great French emperor to power. It includes a wealth of primary sources, from letters and proclamations to newspaper articles and eyewitness accounts, providing a detailed and compelling picture of this pivotal period in European history. Howard's expert commentary and analysis bring these sources to life, making this an essential read for anyone interested in the career of Napoleon and the early 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: John Eldred Howard
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781297028519
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
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Category : France
Languages : en
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Covers the years before the peace of Amiens (1802) and contains some family letters, but its main emphasis is on military and official documents.
Author: Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Author: J. M. Thompson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1444659758
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Not that all Napoleons letters, or even many of them, are of a selfrevealing kind. In youth he had few confidants in middle age he had little to confide. la the stress of business and war he soon shed the idealism of the patriot, the fatalism of the f evolutionary, and the romanticism of the lover. Any sense he may once have had of the beauty, the pathos, or even the humour of life was coarsened by flattery and success. He can still declare, exhort, abuse, persuade, even charm but always in the interest of a policy, and to gain an end. He is wise, clearsighted, eloquent, heroic but hardly ever a human being in repose. Nevertheless, Napo leons letters remain, beyond anything written about him, or anything else he wrote or said about himself, by far his finest portrait. When he was a young man, Napoleon wrote in the rapid and already confused hand of the relatively rare letters signed Buonaparte or Bonaparte. With growing age and work, his handwriting became so slovenly as to be wellnigh illegible whilst his signature shortened from Napoleon to Napol., Nap., Np., and N. Though he still wrote some private letters, and the more important military and diplomatic despatches, he habitually employed secretaries, and carried on the bulk of his correspondence by dictation. Napoleon had three principal secretaries Bourrienne 1797-1802, Meneval 1802-13, and Fain 1806-14. All of them wrote Memoirs, and there is no lack of evidence as to how their work was done. In a rather unkind conversation at St. Helena, Napoleon said that Bourrienne wrote a good hand, and was active, tireless, and patriotic, but that he was a gambler, whose face lit up when his master dictated any thing dealing with big figures: he was in fact dismissed for becoming involved in financial speculation. His work was done partly at the Luxembourg, and partly at the Tuileries. In his Memoirs he describes Napoleons appear ance, dress, and habits in minute detail. From breakfast at 10 to dinner at 5 every hour was taken up with reading petitions, correcting letters, giving interviews, or attending meetings.
Author: Philip Dwyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113463837X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period was the defining moment for modern European history. Using primary texts, this volume explains the upheavals, terror, and drama that restructured politics and society on such a large scale.
Author: Rafe Blaufarb
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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By calming revolutionary turbulence while preserving fundamental gains of 1789, Napoleon Bonaparte laid the foundations of modern France. But his impact reached beyond France's borders as well. His legacy of war, civil rights, exploitation, and national awakening reshaped identities across the European continent, while in the Atlantic world he destroyed the colonial order and helped plant the seeds of American power. In this collection of wide-ranging primary sources -- including confidential memoranda and correspondence, speeches, memoirs, letters, police reports, and songs, most of which appear in English translation for the first time -- Rafe Blaufarb situates Napoleon within his time while opening a broad perspective on the nature and impact of Napoleonic rule. His introduction provides a narrative of Napoleon's rise and fall and frames the key issues of Napoleon's life and times. Useful pedagogical tools include maps, illustrations, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography.
