Meneval, Claude-Francois, baron de, 1778-1850.

Napoleon, an intimate account of the years of supremacy, 1800-1814 / Proctor Jones, with assistance by Charles-Otto Zieseniss. - New York, NY : Distributed by Random House, �1992. - xxxvi, 444 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Selections from the memoirs of Baron Claude-Fran�cois de M�eneval and Louis Constant Wairy, first secretary and first valet to Napoleon Bonaparte, respectively. Includes index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The consulate -- Preparation for empire -- The empire, the outset -- Interlude -- The battlefield campaigns to the east Germany, Austria, Poland -- Civil matters -- Spanish problems -- The threat renewed -- The divorce, the second empress, and the king of Rome -- The calm before the storm -- The circle begins to close -- The Russian campaign -- "The bow is overstretched" -- Last stand at Dresden and Leipzig -- The campaign of France -- Betrayal, abdication, and the not-so-final curtain.

This volume is filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions of original letters covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover, and imperial head of state.

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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845.


1799-1815


Contemporaries
Kings and rulers


France--Kings and rulers--Biography.
France--History--Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.


History
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