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Napoleon, an intimate account of the years of supremacy, 1800-1814 / Proctor Jones, with assistance by Charles-Otto Zieseniss.
- Title
- Napoleon, an intimate account of the years of supremacy, 1800-1814 / Proctor Jones, with assistance by Charles-Otto Zieseniss.
- Author
- Méneval, Claude-François, baron de, 1778-1850
- Publication
- New York, NY : Distributed by Random House, c1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DC203 .M5413 1992 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxxvi, 444 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
- Summary
- This volume is filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions of original letters covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover, and imperial head of state.
- Uniform Title
- Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Napoléon Ier depuis 1802 jusq'à 1814. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Napoléon Ier depuis 1802 jusq'à 1814.
- Napoleon.
- Subject
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
- Méneval, Claude-François, baron de, 1778-1850 > Relations with Napoleon I
- Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 > Relations with Napoleon I
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 > Contemporaries
- Méneval, Claude-François, baron de, 1778-1850
- Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845
- 1799-1815
- France > Kings and rulers > Biography
- France > History > Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Selections from the memoirs of Baron Claude-François de Méneval and Louis Constant Wairy, first secretary and first valet to Napoleon Bonaparte, respectively.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The consulate -- Preparation for empire -- The empire, the outset -- Interlude -- The battlefield campaigns to the east Germany, Austria, Poland -- Civil matters -- Spanish problems -- The threat renewed -- The divorce, the second empress, and the king of Rome -- The calm before the storm -- The circle begins to close -- The Russian campaign -- "The bow is overstretched" -- Last stand at Dresden and Leipzig -- The campaign of France -- Betrayal, abdication, and the not-so-final curtain.
- ISBN
- 0679414584
- LCCN
- ^^^92053514^
- OCLC
- 27073293
- SCSB-10838295
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library