| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 1008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Contents |
Part I. Napoleon and Corsica: 1769-1793 -- An Italian family in Corsica -- A French upbringing -- The French officer and the Corsican patriot -- The revolutionary of Ajaccio -- Lost illusions -- Part II. Entry into the scene: 1793-1796 -- Toulon -- In search of a future -- Happiness -- Part III. The Italian Campaign: 1796-1797 -- That beautiful Italy -- An Italian policy? -- On the road to Vienna -- Mombello -- Saving the Directory -- Campoformio -- Parisian interlude -- Part IV. The Egyptian Expedition: 1798-1799 -- The road to the Indies -- The conquest of the Nile -- Governing Egypt -- Jaffa -- The return from the orient -- Part V. Crossing the Rubicon: 1799 -- The conspiracy -- Brumaire -- Part VI. A king for the revolution: 1799-1802 -- First Consul -- First steps -- From the Tuileries to Marengo -- Works and days -- The turning point of 1801 -- Peace with the church -- The top of the ladder |
| Summary |
Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
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| SUBJECT |
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 fast |
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Emperors -- France -- Biography
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Heads of state -- France -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Emperors
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Heads of state
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France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051395
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| Subject |
France
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rendall, Steven, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780674425996 |
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0674425995 |
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0674426010 |
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9780674426016 |
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