In this hefty first volume of a projected twovolume biography of the magician who was napoleon bonaparte 17691821, french scholar gueniffey director of studieslecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, paris places the patriot and dictator squarely at the center of unprecedented. Patrice gueniffey, the leading french historian of the revolutionary and napoleonic age, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period. Jeanmarie delaperche, an artist confronted by the torments of history jeanmarie delaperche 17711843 was born in orleans. The encyclopedia of the french revolutionary and napoleonic wars. Lexpress a magisterial and often exhilarating biography.
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