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

by Forrest, Alan I.

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St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.

Emperors -- France -- Biography.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815.

France -- History -- 1789-1815.

9781250009036 (hbk.)

1250009030 (hbk.)

xii, 403 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

Originally published: London : Quercus, 2011.

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

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.

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.

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