Napoleon : life, legacy, and image : a biography

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Napoleon : life, legacy, and image : a biography

Title remainder

life, legacy, and image : a biography

Statement of responsibility

Alan Forrest

Creator

• Forrest, Alan I

Subject

• Emperors -- France -- Biography
• France -- History -- 1789-1815
• Napoleon, I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
• Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead Emperor's corpse from the Island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile. In this book, the author tells the story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own. Along the way, the author also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Napoleon, a man who mixed history and legend promiscuously and, drawing on original research and his own background in French history, demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator--

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Biography type

individual biography

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IT-FiEUI

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography