Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Empire
Napoleon Bonaparte has inspired more biographies and histories than nearly anyone else who has ever lived. We continue to
search his childhood on Corsica and his early training at the Ecole Royale
Militaire in Paris for signs of the general who will conquer most of
Europe or the statesman who will establish the Code Napoleon which is
still the basis of French law today. We read with amazement not only
the military campaigns, but the political insight that positioned him to
carry out a coup against the Directory, establish his dictatorship and
then empire. We're fascinated by his marriages to Josephine and then
Marie Louise, daughter of the Austrian emperor, and his love affairs after
Josephine's betrayal. Compelling too are the accounts of Napoleon
Bonaparte's exiles and short-lived return to power, and the hypothesis
that he was assassinated in St. Helena. All those histories and his
own writings are here in your online bookstore. Just click the title
for full details and ordering.
Directory (1795-1804) (5 members) and Napoleon Bonaparte/First Empire (1804-1815)
In 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte established the French Empire and assumed
the title Emperor.
Next go to Louis XVIII
or Bookstore Directory
for other periods.
Napoleon III/Louis Napoleon/Second Empire (1852-1870)
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