Lot of 2 : Napoleon's Family by Desmond Seward & Napoleon by Andrew Roberts Book
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Lot of 2 : Napoleon's Family by Desmond Seward & Napoleon by Andrew Roberts Book. In Napoleon's Family, Desmond Seward re-counts the saga of this extraordinary clan of arriviste émigrés. They showed little aptitude for governing and little courage on the military fields, reserving all their daring for dissolute adventure and scandal. Napoleon : A Life The French Revolution was spiraling out of control when Napoleon Bonaparte became a general at twenty-four. The American Revolution gave us Washington, but the French got in Napoleon a man who was Washington, Jefferson, and Madison rolled into one. A visionary workaholic fascinated by every detail in the running of his empire, Napoleon wrote a new legal code, transformed the French educational system, created the Louvre and the Bank of France, introduced the metric system, and rebuilt Paris. But was the cost of his ambition too high in lives and liberties? Together with Josephine, whose infidelities he surprisingly forgave, he put his stamp on an era and brought France triumphantly into the modern age. Here at last is a biography worthy of its subject: magisterial, dynamic, and a pleasure to read. Napoleon's Family In Napoleon's Family, Desmond Seward re-counts the saga of this extraordinary clan of arriviste émigrés. The gossip-mongering, back-biting, and bickering for honors among Napoleon's siblings was incessant, often vicious, always deliciously entertaining, and a constant embarrassment to their illustrious brother. They showed little aptitude for governing and little courage on the military fields, reserving all their daring for dissolute adventure and scandal. One brother was a drunken wastrel, another a venal womanizer, a third a paranoid depressive. The emperor's sisters distinguished themselves not only by the eminence of their lovers-among whom numbered Metternich and the violinist Paganini-but by their insatiable appetite for more.
