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Abstract: The age of Napoleon transformed Europe, laying the foundations for the modern world. Now Alistair Horne, one of the great chroniclers of French history gives us a fresh account of that remarkable time. Born into poverty on the remote island of Corsica, he rose to prominence in the turbulent years following the French Revolution, when most of Europe was arrayed against France. Through a string of brilliant and improbable victories (gained as much through his remarkable ability to inspire his troops as through his military genius), Napoleon brought about a triumphant peace that made him the idol of France and, later, its absolute ruler. Heir to the Revolution, Napoleon himself was not a revolutionary; rather he was a reformer and a modernizer, both liberator and autocrat. Looking to the Napoleonic wars that raged on the one hand, and to the new social order emerging on the other, Horne incisively guides readers through every aspect of Napoleons two-decade rule: from Frances newfound commitment to an aristocracy based on merit rather than inheritance, to its civil code (Napoleons most important and enduring legacy), to censorship, cuisine, the texture of daily life in Paris, and the influence of Napoleon abroad. At the center of Hornes story is a singular man, one whose ambition, willpower, energy and ability to command changed history, and continues to fascinate us today. From the Hardcover edition
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ALISTAIR HORNE
THE AGE
OF
NAPOLEON
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A MODERN LIBRARY CHRONICLES BOOK
THE MODERN LIBRARY
NEW YORK
CONTENTS
FOR DAVID AND SHIELA
CHRONOLOGY
1789 French Revolution: Fall of the Bastille.
1791 Installation of the Legislative Assembly.
1792 War of the First Coalition. Battle of Valmy. Abolition of the monarchy. The National Convention.
1793 Execution of Louis XVI. War declared on England. Committee of Public Safety formed. Siege of Toulon.
1794 The Terror.
1795 The Directory. Whiff of Grapeshot.
1796 Italian campaigns: Battle of Castiglione. Battle of Arcola. Battle of Rivoli.
1798 Egyptian expedition.
1799 War of the Second Coalition. Brumaire coup dtat. The Consulate.
1800 Battle of Marengo.
1801 Concordat signed.
1802 Peace of Amiens. Napoleon made Consul for life.
1804 Cadoudal conspiracy. Coronation of Napoleon I. The First Empire.
1805 War of the Third Coalition. Battle of Ulm. Battle of Trafalgar. Battle of Austerlitz.
1806 War against Prussia and Austria. Battle of Jena-Auerstdt.
1807 Battle of Eylau. Battle of Friedland. Peace of Tilsit.
1808 Peninsular War begins.
1809 Battle of Wagram.
1810 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise.
1812 Invasion of Russia. Borodino.
1813 German War of Liberation (War of the Fourth Coalition). Battle of Dresden. Battle of Leipzig.
1814Patrie en Danger campaign. Napoleon exiled to Elba. Congress of Vienna.
1815 The Hundred Days. Battle of Waterloo.
1816 Second Bourbon restoration.
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INTRODUCTION
THE AGE OF NAPOLEON
A recent French book about Napoleon, yet one more added to the total of 600,000 on the subject, bears the title Lpisode Napolonien. Episode! Certainly it was an episode that fundamentally changed Western civilization. More embracingly we speak of the Age of Napoleon, or the World of Napoleon. But what dates should one set on his world, or his age? Does it begin with his birth, in 1769? No, too early; obviously the Napoleonic influence was not yet even a promise of things to come. Does it end with his fall, Waterloo and St. Helena, in 1815? No, too soon; his influence carried on, like a rolling stone. Or in 1821, with his glum death? But what about all those lost years, when he was imprisoned, dying of boredom, coldand possibly arsenicon St. Helena? Or what about 1840, his reinterment in state in the Invalides? But then a new Age of Napoleon, of his nephew, Louis-Napoleon, was just about to begin. And yet the influence of Napoleon I, Napoleon le Grand, would continue long after even the demise of his nephew.
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