TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meneval,Claude-Francois
AU  - Jones,Proctor
AU  - Zieseniss,Charles-Otto
AU  - Wairy,Louis Constant
TI  - Napoleon, an intimate account of the years of supremacy, 1800-1814
SN  - 0679414584
AV  - DC203 .M52
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Distributed by Random House
KW  - Napoleon
KW  - Wairy, Louis Constant,
KW  - Contemporaries
KW  - fast
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
KW  - Biographies
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -