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Bonaparte : 1769-1802 / Patrice Gueniffey ; translated by Steven Rendall.
- Title
- Bonaparte : 1769-1802 / Patrice Gueniffey ; translated by Steven Rendall.
- Author
- Gueniffey, Patrice
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DC205 .G8413 2015 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Rendall, Steven
- Description
- viii, 1008 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Bonaparte. English
- Alternative Title
- Bonaparte.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780674368354
- 0674368355
- LCCN
- ^^2014034162
- OCLC
- 890377611
- SCSB-11493608
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library