Bonaparte : 1769-1802 / Patrice Gueniffey ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who—in Madame de Staël’s words—made the...
Uniform Title: | Bonaparte.
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Language: | English |
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French |
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Translated from the French. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2015.
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Physical Description: | viii, 1,008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |
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Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who—in Madame de Staël’s words—made the rest of "the human race anonymous." Gueniffey follows Bonaparte from his obscure boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns of the Revolutionary wars, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Bonaparte is the story of how Napoleon became Napoleon. |
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Call Number: | DC205 .G8413 2015 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674368354 0674368355 |