Margaret

Scholars

The breadth of Napoleonic material amazes and at times overwhelms me.  Of course, its volume results from the huge impact he had in so many physical, political and cultural areas of the world, but I am grateful to the multitude of scholars who have painstakingly recorded the details, both small and large. I’m not a …

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Why Napoleon Bonaparte?

He is the epitome of France, yet he didn’t speak French until he was nine.   The second son of minor, impoverished Corsican nobility, he attended military school on the French king’s sou.  By age thirty, he had supplanted that monarch as France’s ruler. He faced battle fearlessly but could be petulant over a slight head …

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