Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 9780006388142
Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the nation grew in artistic fulfilment, industrial wealth and international influence - until catastrophic defeat at the hands of Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 cast her back into the shadows.
Author :
Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9674310746
This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his army into many victorious battles. This is the story of how a lawyer's son rose to become a powerful emperor.
Author : Alan Strauss-Schom
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250057787
A breakout biography of Louis-Napoleon III, whose controversial achievements have polarized historians. Considered one of the pre-eminent Napoleon Bonaparte experts, Pulitzer Prize-nominated historian Alan Strauss-Schom has turned his sights on another in that dynasty, Napoleon III (Louis-Napoleon) overshadowed for too long by his more romanticized forebear. In the first full biography of Napoleon III by an American historian, Strauss-Schom uses his years of primary source research to explore the major cultural, sociological, economical, financial, international, and militaristic long-lasting effects of France's most polarizing emperor. Louis-Napoleon’s achievements have been mixed and confusing, even to historians. He completely revolutionized the infrastructure of the state and the economy, but at the price of financial scandals of imperial proportions. In an age when “colonialism” was expanding, Louis-Napoleon’s colonial designs were both praised by the emperor’s party and the French military and resisted by the socialists. He expanded the nation’s railways to match those of England; created major new transoceanic steamship lines and a new modern navy; introduced a whole new banking sector supported by seemingly unlimited venture capital, while also empowering powerful new state and private banks; and completely rebuilt the heart of Paris, street by street. Napoleon III wanted to surpass the legacy of his famous uncle, Napoleon I. In The Shadow Emperor, Alan Strauss-Schom sets the record straight on Napoleon III's legacy.
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1835
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Betty Adcock
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807126646
With a penetrating eye and a deep and spiritual intelligence, Betty Adcock writes poems that range from elegy to dark humor as they confront both loss and possibility. Intervale, selections from her first four books plus a new collection, traces the continuity of her vision and shows that lyric intensity can bring light to even the most obdurate darkness. Moving from the original loss of a world at her mother's death during the poet's sixth year to the world's loss of the arboreal leopards of Cambodia and Vietnam; from vanishing farmland to the endangered Sacred Harp music that once flourished in backwoods churches; from the difficult history of a little-known rural place to the weighted ruins of Greece -- these poems frame lessenings, divestations, and devastations in the midst of plenty. A wilderness disappears into cozy myth, farming into industry, tiger and elephant into zoos; the very ground underfoot, with its attendant necessities and contingencies, can seem to fade into fabrications we take for reality. The seam where such themes touch Adcock's personal history is the path these poems travel toward a harsh but luminous transcendence.
Author : Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1890
Category :
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Author : Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1892
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752430680
Reproduction of the original: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III by Sir Walter Scott
Author : Adam Zamoyski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 34,65 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1541644557
The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as "magnificent" by The Economist. "What a novel my life has been!" Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a galvanizing military commander. The Pope crowned him as Emperor of the French when he was only thirty-five. Within a few years, he became the effective master of Europe, his power unparalleled in modern history. His downfall was no less dramatic. The story of Napoleon has been written many times. In some versions, he is a military genius, in others a war-obsessed tyrant. Here, historian Adam Zamoyski cuts through the mythology and explains Napoleon against the background of the European Enlightenment, and what he was himself seeking to achieve. This most famous of men is also the most hidden of men, and Zamoyski dives deeper than any previous biographer to find him. Beautifully written, Napoleon brilliantly sets the man in his European context.
Author : Jim Gigliotti
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0448488604
Learn more about Napoleon Bonaparte, the decorated French military leader who conquered much of Europe in the early nineteenth century. Born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte felt like an outsider once his family moved to France. But he found his life's calling after graduating from military school. Napoleon went on to become a brilliant military strategist and the emperor of France. In addition to greatly expanding the French empire, Napoleon also created many laws, which are still encoded in legal systems around the world.
