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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Roberts, Andrew (1963-....)
Titre(s) : Napoleon the Great [Texte imprimé] / Andrew Roberts
Publication : London : Allen Lane, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXXIII-936 p.-[32] p. de pl.) : maps, illustrations (some color), portraits
; 25 cm
Comprend : Part One: Rise ; 1. Corsica ; 2. Revolution ; 3. Desire ; 4. Italy ; 5. Victory
; 6. Peace ; 7. Egypt ; 8. Acre ; 9. Brumaire ; Part Two: Mastery ; 10. Consul
; 11. Marengo ; 12. Lawgiver ; 13. Plots ; 14. Amiens ; 15. Coronation ; 16.
Austerlitz ; 17. Jena ; 18. Blockades ; 19. Tilsit ; 20. Iberia ; 21. Wagram
; 22. Zenith ; Part Three: Denouement ; 23. Russia ; 24. Trapped ; 25. Retreat
; 26. Resilience ; 27. Leipzig ; 28. Defiance ; 29. Elba ; 30. Waterloo ; 31.
St Helena ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 869-888) and index
"It has become all too common for Napoleon Bonaparte's biographers to approach him
as a figure to be reviled, bent on world domination, practically a proto-Hitler. Here,
after years of study extending even to visits paid to St Helena and 53 of Napoleon's
56 battlefields, Andrew Roberts has created a true portrait of the mind, the life,
and the military and above all political genius of a fundamentally constructive ruler.
This is the Napoleon, Roberts reminds us, whose peacetime activity produced countless
indispensable civic innovations - and whose Napoleonic Code provided the blueprint
for civil law systems still in use around the world today. It is one of the greatest
lives in world history, which here has found its ideal biographer. The sheer enjoyment
which this book will give anyone who loves history is enormous."--Provided by publisher
; From Andrew Roberts, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Storm of War, this
is the definitive modern biography of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the
most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October
1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists,
to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815,
Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'etat he ended
the corruption and incompetence into which the Revolution had descended. In a series
of dazzling battles he reinvented the art of warfare; in peace, he completely remade
the laws of France, modernised her systems of education and administration, and presided
over a flourishing of the beautiful 'Empire style' in the arts
Sujet(s) : Napoléon Ier (1769-1821 ; empereur des Français)
France -- 1789-1815
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781846140273. - ISBN 1846140277
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44251169w
Notice n° :
FRBNF44251169
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