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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gueniffey, Patrice (-)
Otros Autores: Rendall, Steven
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2015.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.