The True Story of Louis Napoleon's Life
Author : Samuel Phillips Day
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1871
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Phillips Day
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1871
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,63 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 : Andrew Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9780670025329
"First published in Great Britain by Allan Lane"--Title page verso.
Author : Ted Gott
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780724103553
This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.
Author :
Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 43,44 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 : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Deborah Jay
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780993403002
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 1611450373
Author McLynn explores the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the chaotic years of the French Revolution and his extraordinary military triumphs, to the coronation in 1804, to his fatal decision in 1812 to add Russia to his seemingly endless conquests, and his ultimate defeat, imprisonment, and death in Saint Helena. McLynn aptly reveals the extent to which Napoleon was both existential hero and plaything of fate, mathematician and mystic, intellectual giant and moral pygmy, great man and deeply flawed human being.
Author : Betty Adcock
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 31,41 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 : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313017263
From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.