NAPOLEON
Memoirs, History, and Legend of Empire, Revolution, Waterloo, and ExileBy Charles Downer Hazen, Napoleon Bonaparte, William Milligan Sloane, Alexandre Dumas, Louis Constant Wairy, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Length236h 53m
About this audiobook
NAPOLEON assembles a richly variegated portrait of the emperor through history, memoir, political reflection, and imaginative re-creation. Its materials range from analytical accounts of revolutionary France and imperial statecraft to intimate recollections of courtly ritual, exile, and military ambition. The collection places Napoleonic legend beside documentary testimony, allowing the drama of battlefield command, administrative reform, and personal self-fashioning to emerge as mutually illuminating—and often contested—forms of narrative. The contributors bring markedly different relations to the Napoleonic era. Statesman Napoleon Bonaparte's own voice encounters the recollections of close observers Louis Constant Wairy, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, and Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases, whose accounts helped shape the emperor's posthumous image. Charles Downer Hazen and William Milligan Sloane represent the professional historical study of France and Europe, while Alexandre Dumas evokes the nineteenth century's powerful literary transformation of history into romance. Together, these voices trace the passage from Revolution to Empire and from lived event to enduring myth. Ideal for students, historians, and general readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to examine Napoleon from several intellectual and stylistic vantage points at once. Its juxtaposition of testimony, historiography, and literature encourages critical comparison: between memory and evidence, heroism and power, legend and historical consequence. Readers will find both a broad introduction to the Napoleonic world and a stimulating dialogue about how that world has been remembered.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length236 hrs 53 mins
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Publish dateNov 29, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The French Revolution and Napoleon (Annotated)
26Volumes III (pt. 4)
2NAPOLEON
27Volumes III (pt. 5)
3Memories of the Man behind the Myth
28Volumes III (pt. 6)
4Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon
29Volumes III (pt. 7)
5Volumes I
30Volumes IV (pt. 1)
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6PREFACE.
31Volumes IV (pt. 2)
7INTRODUCTION. (pt. 1)
32Volumes IV (pt. 3)
8INTRODUCTION. (pt. 2)
33Volumes IV (pt. 4)
9INTRODUCTION. (pt. 3)
34MY RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE.
10RESIDENCE AT BRIARS. (pt. 1)
35PASSAGE TO EUROPE.
11RESIDENCE AT BRIARS. (pt. 2)
36VOYAGE FROM THE THAMES TO FRANKFORT.
12ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 1)
37RESIDENCE IN GERMANY. (pt. 1)
13ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 2)
38RESIDENCE IN GERMANY. (pt. 2)
14ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 3)
39FROM MY ARRIVAL AT OFFENBACH, UP TO MY RETURN TO FRANCE.
15Volumes II (pt. 1)
40POSTSCRIPT.
16Volumes II (pt. 2)
41SUPPLEMENT.
17Volumes II (pt. 3)
42TESTAMENT OF NAPOLEON.
18Volumes II (pt. 4)
43AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.
19Volumes II (pt. 5)
44VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 1)
20Volumes II (pt. 6)
45VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 2)
21Volumes II (pt. 7)
46VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 3)
22SUMMARY OF THE THREE MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE.
47VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 4)
23Volumes III (pt. 1)
48VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 5)
24Volumes III (pt. 2)
49VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 6)
25Volumes III (pt. 3)
50VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 7)
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