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Book Napoleon and the American Dream

Download or read book Napoleon and the American Dream written by Inès Murat and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inès Murat’s readable and entertaining narrative introduces us to little-known facts about the adventures and misadventures of numerous French veterans of Waterloo who migrated to the United States. More often than not, their visions of life in this country conflicted with the original New World dream of the peaceful pioneer. For two centuries, the lure of what we now call the American Dream had beckoned rich and poor from the Old World. “In all respects,” said Napoleon, “America was our true refuge.” Reported by Las Cases in the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, this statement signifies only one phase of the connections between the Emperor and the United States. Anecdotes and incisive portraits of numerous Bonapartists who came to America vividly portray the complex intermeshing between the Emperor and the United States. Anecdotes and incisive portraits of numerous Bonapartists who came to America vividly portray the complex intermeshing between the ideals of the French Revolution and the new forms of freedom that had been born in America. These dramatic accounts bring to the foreground of history the impact of two world views—that of the Old World, sheltered in the shadow of Napoleon’s belief in historical destiny, and that of the New World, more experimental and industrious. The clash produced a resounding din in the Napoleonic epoch, for which Napoleon and the American Dream traces new routes and relationships between two cultures.

Book Napoleon s Oraculum and Dream Book

Download or read book Napoleon s Oraculum and Dream Book written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon's Oraculum and Dream Book - Containing the great oracle of human destiny is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book Napoleon s Lucky Dream Book

Download or read book Napoleon s Lucky Dream Book written by Cosimo, Incorporated and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ten of ClubsDenotes great riches to come speedily from an unexpected source; but also threatens that you will at the same time lose some very dear friend.On the Nails of the FingersBroad nails show the person to be bashful, fearful, but of gentle nature. Queries About Fortunate DaysFair Venus Friday does approve, And on that day prosper love. This "Book of Fate" is said to be a perfect facsimile of the one used by Napoleon, and was supposedly consulted by him on every important occasion. It permits fortune telling by dice; fortunate and unfortunate days; behaviors; the lines and forms of the face, hair, and eyes; as well as fortune telling by cards, palms, and coffee grounds in a cup. Last but not least, it provides spells, charms, and incantations, as well as signs of a speedy marriage, and ways to choose good husbands and wives. The book admonishes Napoleon for not following its advice more closely: "Happy had it been for him had he abided or been ruled by the answers of this Oracle."

Book Napoleon s Book of Fate and Oraculum

Download or read book Napoleon s Book of Fate and Oraculum written by Anonymous and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

Book Napoleon and the American Dream

Download or read book Napoleon and the American Dream written by Inès Murat and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paris  City of Dreams

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  • Author : Mary McAuliffe
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-04-09
  • ISBN : 1538121298
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Paris City of Dreams written by Mary McAuliffe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today. Together, Napoleon III and his right-hand man, Georges Haussmann, completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades—a breathtaking achievement made possible not only by the emperor’s vision and Haussmann’s determination but by the regime’s unrelenting authoritarianism, augmented by the booming economy that Napoleon fostered. Yet a number of Parisians refused to comply with the restrictions that censorship and entrenched institutional taste imposed. Mary McAuliffe follows the lives of artists such as Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Claude Monet, as well as writers such as Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, and the poet Charles Baudelaire, while from exile, Victor Hugo continued to fire literary broadsides at the emperor he detested. McAuliffe brings to life a pivotal era encompassing not only the physical restructuring of Paris but also the innovative forms of banking and money-lending that financed industrialization as well as the city’s transformation. This in turn created new wealth and lavish excess, even while producing extreme poverty. More deeply, change was occurring in the way people looked at and understood the world around them, given the new ease of transportation and communication, the popularization of photography, and the emergence of what would soon be known as Impressionism in art and Naturalism and Realism in literature—artistic yearnings that would flower in the Belle Epoque. Napoleon III, whose reign abruptly ended after he led France into a devastating war against Germany, has been forgotten. But the Paris that he created has endured, brought to vivid life through McAuliffe’s rich illustrations and evocative narrative.

Book Dreams of Empire

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  • Author : Paul Fregosi
  • Publisher : Citadel Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9781559720366
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dreams of Empire written by Paul Fregosi and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY-GENERAL HISTORY

Book Napoleon s Complete Dream Book

Download or read book Napoleon s Complete Dream Book written by Camille Le Normand and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bonaparte

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  • Author : Patrice Gueniffey
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-13
  • ISBN : 0674426010
  • Pages : 1037 pages

Download or read book Bonaparte written by Patrice Gueniffey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man who—in Madame de Staël’s words—made the rest of “the human race anonymous.” Gueniffey follows Bonaparte from his obscure boyhood in Corsica, to his meteoric rise during the Italian and Egyptian campaigns of the Revolutionary wars, to his proclamation as Consul for Life in 1802. Bonaparte is the story of how Napoleon became Napoleon. A future volume will trace his career as emperor. Most books approach Napoleon from an angle—the Machiavellian politician, the military genius, the life without the times, the times without the life. Gueniffey paints a full, nuanced portrait. We meet both the romantic cadet and the young general burning with ambition—one minute helplessly intoxicated with Josephine, the next minute dominating men twice his age, and always at war with his own family. Gueniffey recreates the violent upheavals and global rivalries that set the stage for Napoleon’s battles and for his crucial role as state builder. His successes ushered in a new age whose legacy is felt around the world today. Averse as we are now to martial glory, Napoleon might seem to be a hero from a bygone time. But as Gueniffey says, his life still speaks to us, the ultimate incarnation of the distinctively modern dream to will our own destiny.

Book Napoleon Bonaparte

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd
  • Release : 2012-11-01
  • ISBN : 9674310746
  • Pages : 33 pages

Download or read book Napoleon Bonaparte written by and published by Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is suitable for children age 9 and above. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first emperor of France. He was a very successful military general and he led his army into many victorious battles. This is the story of how a lawyer's son rose to become a powerful emperor.

Book The Dream of Napoleon  To which are Added She is Just the Thing If She Has the Money   Songs

Download or read book The Dream of Napoleon To which are Added She is Just the Thing If She Has the Money Songs written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1830* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleon s Dream

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1828
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Napoleon s Dream written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Napoleons Oraculum

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  • Author : Frank Tousey
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-30
  • ISBN : 9781535001199
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Napoleons Oraculum written by Frank Tousey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Napoleon's Oraculum is one of the foremost fortune-telling works of its era. Based in part on the system found in the earlier British work "The Philosophical Merlin," it purports to deliver to the reader a system of divination once used by Napoleon Bonaparte himself to govern his conquests. This edition of the work, earlier than other American endeavors at crafting such a system, adds to the Oraculum itself an elaborate series of passages by which playing cards, dice, dominoes, and other means can be used to divine fortunes. Altogether, it is perhaps the finest pre-modern work of its type ever made.

Book Finding Napoleon

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  • Author : Margaret Rodenberg
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 1647420172
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Finding Napoleon written by Margaret Rodenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rodenberg inventively uses Bonaparte’s own unfinished novel to tell the story of the despot’s rise to power, which she juxtaposes against the story of his last love affair. Told creatively and with excellent research!” —Stephanie Dray, New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of America's First Daughter and The Women of Chateau Lafayette “Beautiful and poignant.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times best-selling author of The Queen’s Fortune With its delightful adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s real attempt to write romantic fiction, Finding Napoleon: A Novel offers a fresh take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything—except his last love. A forgotten woman of history—the audacious Countess Albine—helps narrate their tale of intrigue, desire, and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son. Banding together enslaved Africans, British sympathizers, a Jewish merchant, a Corsican rogue, and French followers, they confront British opposition—as well as treachery within their own ranks—with sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, but always desperate action. Amid his passions and intrigues, Napoleon finishes his real novel Clisson that he started writing as a young man. Now it's a father's message to the young son whom his enemies took from him, but how can they get it to the boy? When Napoleon and Albine break faith with one another, ambition and Albine’s husband threaten their reconciliation. To succeed, Napoleon must learn whom to trust. To survive, Albine must decide whom to betray. This elegant, richly researched novel reveals the Napoleon history conceals and the Countess Albine history has forgotten.

Book The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte

Download or read book The Rise Of Napoleon Bonaparte written by Robert Asprey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as v. 1 of The rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Book Napoleon s Book of Fate

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  • Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1861
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Napoleon s Book of Fate written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dream of Napoleon  Young Thomas  Etc   Songs

Download or read book A Dream of Napoleon Young Thomas Etc Songs written by Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) and published by . This book was released on 1850* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: