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An edition of Napoleon III (1999)

Napoleon III

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"In the golden age of the Second Empire, the France of Napoleon III - nephew of the great Bonaparte - was known as 'the arbiter of Europe'. For twenty tumultuous years Paris was the glittering heart of the continent, a dramatically reinvented city of wide boulevards and grand public gardens. Then the man known to Bismarck as 'the sphinx without a riddle' lost it all in 1870 in the disastrous Franco-Prussian war."--BOOK JACKET.

"In this biography of one of France's most intriguing rulers, the 'other' Napoleon comes to dramatic life - from boyhood exile after his uncle's defeat at Waterloo, through years of early despair, high adventure and a growing sense of destiny, to two failed coups d'etat, six years in prison followed by an ingenious escape, democratic election in 1848 as President of the Second Republic, and finally (after a brutal show of strength) the emperorship of France."--BOOK JACKET.

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Carroll & Graf
Language
English
Pages
438

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Subjects

Biography, Emperors, History, Kings and rulers, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873., Emperors -- France -- Biography., France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography., France -- History -- 1848-1870., Napoleon iii, emperor of the french, 1808-1873, France, history, 19th century

People

Napoleon III Emperor of the French (1808-1873)

Places

France

Times

1848-1870, Second Empire, 1852-1870, Second Republic, 1848-1852

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE
NAPOLEON I AND THE FIRST EMPIRE
CHAPTER 1: ROOTS: MARTINIQUE AND CORSICA
CHAPTER 2: PARENTS
CHAPTER 3: BIRTH (1808)
CHAPTER 4: EARLY CHILDHOOD (1808-15)
PART TWO
THE PATH TO POWER
CHAPTER 5: GROWING UP IN EXILE (1815-29)
CHAPTER 6: THE CALL TO DESTINY (1830-32)
CHAPTER 7: PREPARING THE RESPONSE (1832-6)
CHAPTER 8: STRASBOURG (1836)
CHAPTER 9: FAREWELL TO ARENENBERG (1837-8)
CHAPTER 10: A NEW LIFE IN LONDON (1838-40)
CHAPTER 11: BOULOGNE - NOT SUCH A FIASCO (1840)
APTER 12: 'PERPETUAL IMPRISONMENT' (1840-46)
CHAPTER 13: THE GREAT ESCAPE (1846)
CHAPTER 14: ENTER MISS HOWARD (1846-8)
PART THREE
POWER AT LAST
CHAPTER 15: RETURN TO FRANCE (1848)
CHAPTER 16: PRINCE-PRESIDENT (1848-52)
CHAPTER 17: COUP D'ETAT AND ALMOST
EMPEROR (1851-2)
PART FOUR
THE SECOND EMPIRE
CHAPTER 18: CHOOSING AN EMPRESS (1852-3)
CHAPTER 19: CONSOLIDATING HIS THRONE (1853-6)
CHAPTER 20: FULFILMENT (1856-60)
CHAPTER 21: MIARKING TIME (1860-65)
CHAPTER 22: THE TURN OF THE TIDE (1865)
CHAPTER 23: RUNNING ON BORROWED TIME (1865-70)
CHAPTER 24: THE BEGINNING OF THE END (1870)
CHAPTER 25: THE EMPIRE FALLS (1870)
PART FIVE
THE END
CHAPTER 26: GOING INTO EXILE (1870-71)
CHAPTER 27: THE LAST EXILE (1871-3)
CHAPTER 28: AN UNNECESSARY DEATH (1873)
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND OTHER SOURCES
INDEX.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-428) and index.

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New York, USA
Genre
Biography.
Other Titles
Napoleon the third

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944.07/092, B
Library of Congress
DC280 .B84 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xxv, 438 p., [24] p. of plates
Number of pages
438
Dimensions
23.6 x 15.9 x 4.1 centimeters

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OL3967067M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0786706600
LCCN
2001272947
OCLC/WorldCat
42885716
Goodreads
2512259

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