Abstract
For the next fifteen years the fate of France and Europe was in the hands of the man described by Chateaubriand as the ‘mightiest breath of life which ever animated human clay’. Ironically his ultimate downfall was to be due to the operation of the very forces which the Revolution had unleashed and which Napoleon accelerated.
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Further Reading
Barnett, D., Bonaparte (Allen and Unwin, 1978).
Best, G., War and Society in Revolutionary Europe (Fontana, 1982).
Geyl, P., Napoleon: For and Against (Cape, 1949).
Markham, F. M. H., Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954).
Thompson, J. M., Napoleon Bonaparte: his Rise and Fall (Blackwell, 1952)
Wright, D. G., Napoleon and Europe (Longman, 1954).
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Miller, S.T. (1988). The Napoleonic Era 1799–1815. In: Mastering Modern European History. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19580-0_2
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