Napoleon: A Biography
them twenty-four hours to make a definite and final commitment, and postponed the attempt until Saturday 9 November, since he wa ...
un regard, Marinette'. Then he sent round letters to all members of the Ancients (where Sieyes had a majority of supporters), su ...
so Madame Gohier, doubly alerted, scribbled her husband a note warning him on no account to accept the invitation. Meanwhile the ...
Talleyrand meanwhile had dealt with Barras. Talleyrand and Admiral Bruix arrived at Barras's house shortly after eleven o'clock ...
last carefree days there, into shape for the bicameral session. The arrangement was that the Elders were to sit in the Gallery o ...
the chamber where the Five Hundred were engaged in impassioned debate. The conspirators were in a clear minority here, and awkwa ...
windows into the Orangerie gardens. Next day hundreds of red togas were found caught up in the branches of trees or strewn on th ...
with bread rioters and this endeared him to the bourgeoisie, now the key class given that the Revolution had devoured its own co ...
were spectacular winners. Joseph had successfully marginalized Berna dotte on 9 November, taking him for lunch outside Paris wh ...
Paris and kept them shut until he knew the certain victor, fully intending to arrest Napoleon and Sieyes for treason if the coup ...
at Malmaison. Napoleon spent most of his time in his office at the Luxembourg, manoeuvring to get rid of Sieyes and Ducos, who h ...
The internal coup which consolidated Napoleon's power came on r2 December. Working on his famous principle that constitutions sh ...
by 'rounding up' the individual figures for the departments, and then proceeded to add soo,ooo notional votes from the Army, whi ...
CHAPTER ELEVEN By New Year's Day 18oo France and Napoleon desperately needed peace. Throughout the nation there was a general wa ...
which Lord Grenville promptly rejected. In response, on 16 February 18oo Napoleon discussed with Talleyrand the possibility of a ...
Switzerland. Also, Moreau was instructed to release a division from the Rhine Army which, reinforced by French units in Switzerl ...
to release Lecourbe. An increasingly anxious Napoleon got a message to Massena that he must hold out until 4 June. Two things he ...
were expected which, combined with Massena's r8,ooo in Genoa, would give France virtual military parity with Austria in Italy. F ...
Napoleon set off in search of Melas, but the Austrians proved elusive. Lannes and Victor engaged and defeated the Austrian vangu ...
plunged into the deepest anguish from the death of the man whom I loved and esteemed more than anyone.' By 10 p.m. the defeated ...
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