Napoleon: A Biography

to Turkey came to life again. The bureaucratic muddle at the Ministry of War had been sorted out and passed to the Commission of ...

seven Parisian sections declared themselves to be in rebellion. General Menou, commander of the Paris garrison, made it plain th ...

Disregarding the paper figures, which showed the Convention with 6<r-- 7o,ooo men under their command, he soon established th ...

deadly fusillade, mowing down the insurgents in droves. This was the action he later euphemistically called 'the whiff of grapes ...

I have just received 400,000 francs for you. I have given it to Fesch who will pay it into your account. I may instal the family ...

events should be seen as cause and effect, not coincidence, as in the versions of some credulous biographers. The usual story is ...

could explain her later childlessness. At all events, Rose stayed in Martinique for two years. In 1790 she returned to Paris whe ...

the background of the women in his informal harem and was happy to add Rose to his collection. The friendship between Rose and T ...

'Seven in the morning. I awaken full of you... The memory of yesterday's intoxicating evening has left no rest to my senses ... ...

Many of Josephine's friends thought that Napoleon was a strange choice for her. Their personalities clashed, as she was indolent ...

married at all. The mayor was not present, possibly because of the wedding's extreme lateness, and the ceremony was conducted by ...

You have made me so unhappy, and I am weak enough to forgive you! You married! Poor Desiree must no longer love you or think of ...

kind of woman who was likely to appeal to a man who was sexually insecure and misogynistic. She was unchallenging, featherbraine ...

man as the son-lover benefits by the partially sexual, partially mother interest of the woman. Thus such a relationship can be s ...

CHAPTER SEVEN The grand strategy for the 1796 campaign against Austria was the brainchild of Lazare Carnot, though he drew heavi ...

enough that the man was unreliable: he was a former Robespierre acolyte who had trimmed successfully to emerge from Thermidor as ...

as he would brood depressively the evening after a battle, regardless of whether he had won or lost. Popular with his troops, ta ...

At his headquarters Napoleon found 37,000 ill-fed, unpaid and demoralized troops, with which he was supposed to clear 52,000 Aus ...

and had destroyed a supenor enemy force piecemeal by rapidity of movement. Although 'Hannibal merely crossed the Alps, we turned ...

by the Austrians. The bridge, zoo yards long and twelve feet wide, forced attacking troops into a bottlenecked killing ground, a ...