Download or read book Napoleon s Family written by Desmond Seward and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With precision, wit and remarkable clarity, the author chronicles the intertwined lives of these half-savage squireens, scarcely more than peasants with coats of arms through an all but unbelievable saga of vanity, stupidity and mindless greed.' Washington Post 'The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte retold - and retold most engagingly - with emphasis on the greatest of all his many burdens.' The New Yorker In Napoleon's Family, Desmond Seward recounts the saga of these arriviste emigres. The back-biting and bickering for honours among the Emperor's siblings was often vicious, always entertaining, and an embarrassment to their brother. They showed no aptitude for governing or courage on the battlefield, only for self-indulgence. One brother was a drunken wastrel, another a venal womaniser, a third a paranoid depressive. The sisters had an insatiable appetite for lovers, among whom were Metternich and the violinist Paganani. The book is more than a scandalous family chronicle, however. It offers a penetrating view of Napoleon - a military genius who brought France to the height of glory, a far-sighted ruler who initiated social and economic reforms, but a man who could not escape from his background or to control his own family."

Download or read book The Napoleon Dynasty written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by New York, Cornish, Lamport & Company. This book was released on 1852 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the main members of the Bonaparte family from the origin of the family to Louis Napoleon, President of the French Republic.

Download or read book The Napoleon Dynasty written by Charles Edwards Lester and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Napoleon s Family written by Desmond Seward and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1986 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Louis Napoleon and the Bonaparte Family written by Henry Walter De Puy and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bonapartes in America written by Clarence Edward Macartney and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing and exciting, as romantic as it is realistic and historically authentic, THE BONAPARTES IN AMERICA was the first published work to contain in one volume all available material, much of it newly discovered by them, on every member of the Bonaparte family that lived in the United States or was connected in any way with the country. Dr. Macartney, distinguished historian, former head of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and Major Dorrance, author and publisher, roamed afar in their quest of new and important material. Research in the British Museum, and special trips through France and to Corsica, to mention but a few, went into their book of old romance, which was first published on the 100th anniversary of the former King Joseph Bonaparte’s final return to Europe from the United States. This one famous and colorful family has placed a great if hitherto little known part in the building of America, our native land. THE BONAPARTES IN AMERICA contains fascinating chapters on Jerome Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson; Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore; Joseph Bonaparte at Philadelphia, Bordentown, New Jersey, and Lake Bonaparte New York; the Murats of Florida; Napoleon III in New York City; Napoleon III and Mexico; The Napoleonic Exiles in Alabama; Texas and the Champ d’Asile; Marshal Ney and North Carolina; Napoleon and the Louisiana Purchase; Napoleon’s American Son in California; and American Plots to Rescue Napoleon from St. Helena. THE. BONAPARTES IN AMERICA is beautifully illustrated with old portraits and engravings, including pictures of Napoleon, Jerome and Elizabeth. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte. Charles J. Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Joseph’s I Philadelphia home, “Point Breeze” and Bonaparte I park at Bordentown, Lake Bonaparte, Prince and Princess Achille Murat, Napoleon III, Letizia Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon, John Gordon Bonaparte of San Francisco and the Napoleon House at New Orleans.

Download or read book Anecdotes of the Court and Family of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Napoleon and his Family The Story of a Corsican Clan written by Walter Geer and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1927, this book represents Volume I in a series of three volumes. It covers the Napoleonic period of 1769 through to 1809: from his beginnings in Corsica to battle in Spain. “It is impossible to understand fully the drama of the life of Napoleon without taking into consideration two factors, practically ignored by historians, which had a decisive bearing upon his career: his physical heritage, and the influence of his family. “The fame of Napoleon has so overshadowed that of his brothers and sisters that their influence on his career has generally been overlooked. Without disregarding the other cause, which was largely beyond his control, it may be said that the downfall of Napoleon was mainly due to the members of his family, whom he had raised so high, who by their shortcomings and their transgressions became the agents of his decline. “We propose to set forth in these pages the part for which the Family was responsible in the events which brought about the crumbling of the highest fortune that the world has ever seen upraised. “In this drama of Napoleon and His Family there are over twenty persons who take the subordinate roles, and occupy the stage beside the principal actor, but the character of Napoleon dominates the entire play. This, then, is not a life of Napoleon: not a history of his campaigns: not a record of his civil administration—it is only the story of the Family, as it influenced his designs, his acts, and his destiny.”

Download or read book The Napoleon Dynasty A History of the Bonaparte Family Brought Down to the Present Time By the Berkeley Men C E Lester or Rather C E Lester and Edwin Williams With Twenty three Authentic Portraits written by Charles Edwards LESTER and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Women Bonapartes written by Hugh Noel Williams and published by New York, C. Scribner's sons. This book was released on 1909 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sisters of Napoleon written by Joseph Turquan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Home and Court Life of the Emperor Napoleon and His Family written by Laure Junot Abrantès (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of Napoleon His Court and Family written by Laure Junot Abrantès (duchesse d') and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Napoleon s Children written by Susan Normington and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographies of the Bonapartes With portraits etc written by Family of BONAPARTE and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Life of Napoleon III written by Blanchard Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: