Of the making of books about Napoleon Bonaparte, there seems to be no end. Two hundred years after the emperor’s death in 1821 on the island of St. Helena, he continues to be the subject of new ...
On June 25, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at Malmaison, the late Empress Joséphine’s estate 7 miles west of Paris. His dream of holding on to the French throne had just shattered at Waterloo, ...
THE BONAPARTES by David Stacton. 382 pages. Simon & Schuster. $7.95. “All Italians are scoundrels!” Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. “Not all,” an Italian noblewoman ...
The greatest test in the history of the modern Catholic Church began at 2 a.m. on July 6, 1809. That’s when French troops swarmed the Quirinal Palace in Rome. The midnight arrest of Pope Pius VII at ...
Douglas Johnson is emeritus professor of French history at the University of London. It’s inevitable that those who write about Napoleon Bonaparte find themselves thinking of their youth and when they ...
ANOTHER CAESAR—Alfred Neumann—Knopf ($3). Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, spent some 35 years attempting to become Emperor of the French. He finally succeeded. But according to Historian ...
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