Bonaparte: 1769-1802
Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.
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- Full title :Bonaparte : 1769-1802 / Patrice Gueniffey ; translated by Steven Rendall.
Summary
Patrice Gueniffey, the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, from his boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 1008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (chiefly color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674425996, 0674425995, 0674426010, 9780674426016
- DOI:10.4159/9780674425996
- oclc:ocn908335604
- LC Classification:DC205
- Dewey Decimal:944.05092
Table of Contents
Part I. Napoleon and Corsica: 1769-1793 -- An Italian family in Corsica -- A French upbringing -- The French officer and the Corsican patriot -- The revolutionary of Ajaccio -- Lost illusions -- Part II. Entry into the scene: 1793-1796 -- Toulon -- In search of a future -- Happiness -- Part III. The Italian Campaign: 1796-1797 -- That beautiful Italy -- An Italian policy? -- On the road to Vienna -- Mombello -- Saving the Directory -- Campoformio -- Parisian interlude -- Part IV. The Egyptian Expedition: 1798-1799 -- The road to the Indies -- The conquest of the Nile -- Governing Egypt -- Jaffa -- The return from the orient -- Part V. Crossing the Rubicon: 1799 -- The conspiracy -- Brumaire -- Part VI. A king for the revolution: 1799-1802 -- First Consul -- First steps -- From the Tuileries to Marengo -- Works and days -- The turning point of 1801 -- Peace with the church -- The top of the ladder.
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