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Bonaparte
1769–1802
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2015
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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.
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Patrice Gueniffey is Director of Studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
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In [Gueniffey’s] account of Napoleon’s youth and young manhood…his interpretation is superb… Work like this quite dazzles the mind… [Gueniffey] has produced a magnificent and scintillating study of political…analysis that will take its place as a classic French account of Napoleon’s life.
-- Steven Englund New York Review of Books
-- Steven Englund New York Review of Books
The book is exhaustive, scrupulously accurate, and firmly persuasive, for the most part, on the individual stages of Napoleon’s career. It is likely to stand as the definitive biography for quite some time.
-- David A. Bell The Nation
-- David A. Bell The Nation
[A] magisterial and often exhilarating biography… [Gueniffey] writes with a powerful grounding in the intellectual history of late 18th-century France. One of the notable features of the book, and one that distinguishes it from the majority of biographies, is Gueniffey’s concern to anchor his subject in the spirit of the times… It is the most detailed and analytical discussion yet published of his career from his first steps in the military to the moment in 1802 when he was proclaimed First Consul for life… Gueniffey’s next book, on Napoleon’s imperial years, can only be eagerly awaited.
-- Alan Forrest Literary Review
-- Alan Forrest Literary Review
Magnificent…Patrice Gueniffey’s Bonaparte is beautifully written, and its portrait of Talleyrand is masterly. If you need more Napoleon, Gueniffey’s next volume is a good bet.
-- Denis Boyles Claremont Review of Books
-- Denis Boyles Claremont Review of Books
This is clearly a remarkable book… The excitement level never flags in this beautiful retelling of Bonaparte’s lucky period and apogee. The book itself is a triumph in every direction. If you would like to polish up your Napoleon or encounter him in fresh clothes, this is your book.
-- Tom Keneally Sydney Morning Herald
-- Tom Keneally Sydney Morning Herald
[The book’s] mastery of the sources and authorities is remarkable…[Gueniffey’s] principal interest lies not in his recreation of the battles, but in how they are connected not only to the man’s psychology and character, but to the tumultuous history swirling around this most fabulous life…Bonaparte…is punctuated by Gueniffey’s probing, his skepticism about much in Napoleonic historiography that he finds overwrought or mistaken, and his incessant questioning of just how much can be known for sure about Napoleon, whose motives are so elusive. Gueniffey’s work, once completed, will be the dominant ‘life’ of our generation and a few to come.
-- David P. Jordan History and Theory
-- David P. Jordan History and Theory
A masterful biography that deconstructs Napoleon to show the myriad aspects of his character… This biography does justice to the scale of its subject, and it is a worthy study of a brilliant but flawed leader. Ultimately, it shows us Napoleon’s life as the vast canvas that it was, full of the drama and violence of history.
-- David Murphy Irish Times
-- David Murphy Irish Times
Patrice Gueniffey is one of the few historians recognized both in France and in the wider academic world for his work on the Napoleonic era. The author of several books on the period and an editor of Napoleon’s letters, he was persuaded in 2004 to abandon a more limited project to undertake a full biography of his subject. Nine years later the first volume, which ends in 1802, was published in Paris and immediately won all the available plaudits. A second volume will follow in due course. When the work is complete there is little doubt that it will be accepted as the most authoritative biography of Napoleon that we have or are likely to have in the foreseeable future. For now, we have only the first volume but this is enough.
-- Charles Williams Prospect
-- Charles Williams Prospect
No matter how much anyone may have read on the subject, this book will provide some new insights into how Napoleon became convinced of, and clung to, his belief in his exalted and exceptional destiny through many years of obscurity and indifference or even mockery at the hands of his young French peers… Patrice Gueniffey…sees and explains more clearly than foreign biographers usually do the fluctuation of the political constituencies within revolutionary France… This is a very good and thorough book.
-- Conrad Black The Spectator
-- Conrad Black The Spectator
Outstanding.
-- A. M. Mayer Choice
-- A. M. Mayer Choice
A masterful portrait, staggeringly complete and contradictory and fluently translated—a delight to read.
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Bonaparte is that rare sort of book that you start with curiosity and finish with regret that it’s over. We learn much and it never ceases to entertain. Patrice Gueniffey…is a worker doubling as an artist—in short, a great historian.
-- L’Express
-- L’Express
Tens of thousands of books…have been devoted to Napoleon. But some trees, like this one, dominate the forest.
-- Le Figaro
-- Le Figaro
The epic of the self-made man revealed… Masterful… The great virtue of this biography is that it peels away the myth to reveal the epic underneath… Savor the first volume of this fascinating biography of a character who, as Madame de Stael wrote, made ‘mankind anonymous by monopolizing celebrity alone.’
-- Telerama
-- Telerama
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Contents
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List of Maps
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Introduction
1 - Part One. Napoleon and Corsica: 1769–1793
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1. An Italian Family in Corsica
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2. A French Upbringing
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3. The French Officer and the Corsican Patriot
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4. The Revolutionary of Ajaccio
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5. Lost Illusions
110 - Part Two. Entry on Stage: 1793–1796
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6. Toulon
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7. In Search of a Future
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8. Happiness
190 - Part Three. The Italian Campaign: 1796–1797
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9. That Beautiful Italy
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10. An Italian Policy?
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11. On the Road to Vienna
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12. Mombello
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13. Saving the Directory
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14. Campoformio
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15. Parisian Interlude
349 - Part Four. The Egyptian Expedition: 1798–1799
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16. The Road to the Indies
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17. The Conquest of the Nile
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18. Governing Egypt
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19. Jaffa
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20. The Return from the Orient
493 - Part Five. Crossing the Rubicon: 1799
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21. The Conspiracy
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22. Brumaire
549 - Part Six. A King for the Revolution: 1799–1802
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23. First Consul
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24. First Steps
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25. From the Tuileries to Marengo
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26. Works and Days
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27. The Turning Point of 1801
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28. Peace with the Church
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29. The Top of the Ladder
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Notes
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Index
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22 color illustrations, 8 maps
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