Napoleon Life, Legacy, and Image: A Biography【電子書籍】[ Alan Forrest ]

＜p＞From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend＜br /＞ On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead emperor's corpse from the island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile.＜br /＞ In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own.＜br /＞ Along the way, Forrest also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Nap．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る