Bonaparte : 1769-1802
Patrice Gueniffey (Author), Steven Rendall (Translator)
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
eBook, English, 2015
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015
Biography
1 online resource (viii, 1008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
9780674425996, 9780674426016, 0674425995, 0674426010
908335604
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
Translated from the French