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- coup d’état
- In coup d’état
- death mask
- In death mask
- exile on Saint Helena
- interest in sugar beet processing
- memoirs edited by Du Casse
- tomb
association with
Bonaparte family
- Buonaparte, Letizia
- Joseph
- Joséphine
- In Joséphine
- Louis
- Lucien
- Marie-Louise
- In Marie-Louise
- Alexander I
- Barras
- Beauharnais
- Berthier
- Berthollet
- Bertrand
- Bessières
- Botta
- Brune
- Burr
- Cambacérès
- Canova
- Carnot
- Caulaincourt
- Charles IV
- In Charles IV
- Charles XIV John
- Chłopicki
- Dąbrowski
- Daru
- David
- Denon
- Desaix de Veygoux
- Drouet
- Fesch
- In Joseph Fesch
- Fouché
- Fourier
- Frederick Augustus I
- Gaudin
- Goethe
- Gourgaud
- Gros
- Hardenberg
- Hoche
- In Lazare Hoche
- Junot
- Kellermann
- Kościuszko
- Las Cases
- Lebrun
- Lesueur
- Lowe
- Merlin
- Monge
- Murat
- Ney
- Paisiello
- Pius VI
- In Pius VI
- Pius VII
- In Pius VII
- Portalis
- Prud’hon
- Rostopchin
- Savary
- Schimmelpenninck
- Schulmeister
- Schwarzenberg
- Sieyès
- Skrzynecki
- Suchet
- Talleyrand-Perigord
- Walewska
defeat in
- Siege of Acre
diplomacy
- Campo Formio Treaty
- Pressburg Treaty
- Quadruple Alliance of 1813
- Schönbrunn Treaty
- Tilsit Treaties
- Vienna Congress
establishment of
- civil service and Conseil d’État
- Empire style
- In Empire style
- Legion of Honour
- Madeleine
- In Madeleine
- nationalist monarchy
- Saint-Cyr
- In Saint-Cyr
- title of emperor
- In emperor
history of
Austria
- Vienna
Egypt
- In Egypt
- In ancient Egypt: The recovery and study of ancient Egypt
- In Egypt: The French occupation and its consequences (1798–1805)
- Battle of the Pyramids
- canal survey
Europe
- arts
- Egyptomania
- Treaty of Chaumont
France
- Brumaire
- Constitution of the Year VIII
- Paris
- White Terror
Germany
- Dresden
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- In Franconia
- Hamburg
- Kingdom of Westphalia
- In Westphalia
Italy
- Cisalpine Republic
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- Kingdom of Naples
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- Roman Republic
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Latin America
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Netherlands
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Portugal
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Russia
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Switzerland
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- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Teutonic Order
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- Arc de Triomphe
- Bonapartists
- In Bonapartist
- Corps Législatif
- Italian literature
- mapmaking
- O’Higgins
- Romantic art
- Simplon Pass
- In Simplon Pass
influenced by
- Augereau
- Duroc
- Macdonald
involvement in
- Battle of Friedland
- Battle of Jena
- Battle of Lodi
- Siege of Toulon
military innovations
- aides-de-camp
- In aide-de-camp
- balloons
- In balloon
- logistics
- regimental organization
- In regiment
- skirmishing
- strategy and tactics
opposition to
- Bourbon dynasty
- Consalvi
- Enghien
- Ferdinand VII
- Gentz
- Haugwitz
- Stael-Holstein
policies
papacy
- Caprara
- Concordat of 1801
- Papal States
religion
- anticlericalism
- Reformed churches
viewed by
- Beethoven
- Bolívar
- Lafayette
- Metternich
- Tolstoy
Additional Reading
Sources
An enormous mass of documents is dispersed throughout the archives of Europe, but the essential sources are Correspondance de Napoléon Ier, 32 vol. (1858–69, reprinted 1974), published on command of Napoleon III; Oeuvres de Napoléon Ier à Sainte-Hélène, 4 vol. (1870); and Oeuvres littéraires et écrits militaires, 3 vol. (1967). In English are The Bonaparte Letters and Despatches, Secret, Confidential, and Official, 2 vol. (1846); The Confidential Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte with His Brother Joseph, 2 vol. (1855); and Unpublished Correspondence of Napoleon I, Preserved in the War Archives, 3 vol. (1913). The principal ideas of Napoleon may be found in the following works: R.M. Johnston (comp.), The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon’s Life in His Own Words, new ed. (1921, reissued 1975); J.M. Thompson (trans. and ed.), Napoleon Self-Revealed (1934); J. Christopher Herold (ed. and trans.), The Mind of Napoleon (1955, reissued 1961); André Palluel (ed.), Dictionnaire de l’empereur (1969); and Adrien Dansette (ed.), Pensées politiques et sociales de Napoléon (1969). Napoleon’s itinerary is available in Albert Schuermans, Itinéraire général de Napoléon Ier, 2nd ed. (1911); and Louis Garros, Itinéraire de Napoléon Bonaparte (1947).
Biographies
General studies of his life and career include Pierre Lanfrey, The History of Napoleon the First, 2nd ed., 4 vol. (1886, reprinted 1973; originally published in French, 1867–75), a hostile work written at the end of the Second Empire; August Fournier, Napoleon I, trans. by Annie Elizabeth Adams (1915, reissued 1930; originally published in German, 1886), an impartial study written by an Austrian historian; Frédéric Masson, Napoléon et sa famille, 13 vol. (1897–1919), which furnishes numerous details on the everyday life of Napoleon and his relationships with his relatives; John Holland Rose, The Life of Napoleon I, 11th ed., 2 vol. in 1 (1935), an apologetic work; J.M. Thompson, Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall (1952, reissued 1969), an excellent rectification; Eugene Tarlé (Evgenii Viktorovich Tarle), Bonaparte, trans. by John Cournos (1937), the point of view of a Soviet historian; Felix Maurice Hippisley Markham, Napoleon (1963, reissued 1966), an objective study; Jean Mistler, Napoléon et l’empire, 2 vol. (1968, reissued 1979), a magnificently illustrated work, each chapter written by a specialist; Jean Tulard, Napoleon: The Myth of the Saviour (1984); Geoffrey Ellis, Napoleon (1997, reissued 2000); Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (2014); and Michael Broers, Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805, 1 vol. (2014).
The following focus on specific aspects of Napoleon’s personal life. Arthur Chuquet, La Jeunesse de Napoléon, 3 vol. (1897–99), is a basic work on his youth. A revisionist history by Dorothy Carrington, Napoleon and His Parents (1988, reissued 1990), explores Napoleon’s first 16 years. The more intimate life of Napoleon is detailed in Arthur Lévy, Napoléon intime, 7th ed. (1932); and Frédéric Masson, Napoleon at Home, trans. by James E. Matthew, 2 vol. (1894). Theo Aronson, Napoleon and Josephine (1990), is a general account of their life together. James Kemble, Napoleon Immortal (1959), surveys Napoleon’s health. The theory that Napoleon died of arsenic poisoning is explored in Ben Weider and David Hapgood, The Murder of Napoleon, new ed. (1998).
Specialized studies
There are many studies of Napoleon’s career. Donald D. Horward (ed.), Napoleonic Military History: A Bibliography (1986), contains more than 7,000 entries in 14 languages on military, social, political, economic, and other topics. David G. Chandler, The Illustrated Napoleon (1990); and Owen Connelly, Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns, rev. ed. (1999), focus on Napoleon’s military career. Accounts of specific military maneuvers are James R. Arnold, Crisis on the Danube: Napoleon’s Austrian Campaign of 1809 (1990); Curtis Cate, The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel Between Napoleon and Alexander—Russia, 1812 (1985); and Richard K. Riehn, 1812: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign (1990). R.S. Alexander, Bonapartism and Revolutionary Tradition in France: The Fédérés of 1815 (1991), discusses the politico-military organizations that supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days. Paul Fregosi, Dreams of Empire: Napoleon and the First World War, 1792–1815 (1989, reissued 1996), recounts how close Napoleon came to world domination. Stuart Woolf, Napoleon’s Integration of Europe (1991), studies the modernization of Napoleonic Europe. Martyn Lyons, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (1994), is a comprehensive overview of his reign. Robert Holtman, Napoleonic Propaganda (1950, reissued 1969), explains one of the nonmilitary secrets of his success.
Other works of interest include Mabel Emmerton Brookes, St. Helena Story (1960); Norman MacKenzie, The Escape from Elba: The Fall and Flight of Napoleon, 1814–1815 (1982), a popular account of his 10 months on Elba; Julia Blackburn, The Emperor’s Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena (1991, reissued 1997), an examination of Napoleon’s last years in exile along with information on the island itself; Jean Lucas-Dubreton, Le Culte de Napoléon, 1815–1848 (1960), a definitive study of the Napoleonic legend; Hugh Ragsdale, Détente in the Napoleonic Era: Bonaparte and the Russians (1980); and Edward A. Whitcomb, Napoleon’s Diplomatic Service (1979).
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