Napoleon: A Biography

later be a byword for double-dealing, quickly sized up the political situation on his return and saw that Napoleon was the key. ...

partly because they had been brainwashed by Napoleonic propaganda. Bonaparte could not only appeal over the heads of the Directo ...

night of 17-18 Fructidor (3-4 September), in concert with Barras, Reubell and La Revelliere, he surrounded the Tuileries with tr ...

but Napoleon restored both cook and animal. 'Bring him back ,' he said, 'perhaps he will rid me of the new dog to o.' In August ...

something- perhaps a new English initiative- might turn up. In the end Napoleon lost his temper with the delaying tactics. When ...

to Miot de Melito: 'The Parisian lawyers who have been put in the Directory understand nothing of government. They are mean-mind ...

had been expecting her daily in the rue Chantereine. On arrival in the French capital, he made a point of meeting Talleyrand as ...

to disembark on the Pembroke coast, but when Tate's 'Black Legion' surrendered after three days, Hoche's reputation took another ...

Italy. A play based on his Italian exploits, Le Pont de Lodi, was a smash hit at the theatre, and the street where he liv ed, ru ...

anniversary of Louis XVI's execution. Both for personal and political reasons Napoleon did not want to be involved in such a con ...

feminist busybody who did not know her place - a woman, in his eyes, whose alleged beauty and brains were absurdly overrated. Th ...

described? Josephine begged, pleaded, cajoled, wept, waxed piteously and finally fainted. When she came to, she once more denied ...

mmtmum. By spring such an operation was no longer feasible and, as everything would not be ready before April 1798 that seemed t ...

himself the absolute ruler of France or he had to win fresh laurels in the field. With this in mind, he included yet another pos ...

CHAPTER NINE Napoleon's interest in a specific adventure in Egypt, as opposed to his general mania for the Orient, can be traced ...

would they really oppose an army from the French mainland when the only possible beneficiaries were the English? After the debac ...

and, even if we did not know of his early hankering to serve the Porte, we would be alerted to the romantic side of his percepti ...

However, Napoleon was prevailed on by Talleyrand to do separate estimates for Egypt alone, so as not to alarm the Directors. He ...

as a kind of licensed pirate and went from strength to strength until his disgrace in I 807. Having by the most brutal methods r ...

remarkable success, aided by the undoubted fact that troops continued to collect in Channel ports; they would eventually be used ...