Frank mclynn napoleon biography for kids

Page 1 Back Cover Page 2 Pictures Page 3 Title Page Page 20 Copyright Page 21 Contetnts Page 23 Illustrations Page 25 Preface Page Napoleon Bonaparte's character and achievements have always divided critics and historians. In this compelling biography, Frank McLynn draws on the most recent scholarship and throws a brilliant light on this most paradoxical of men -- as military leader, emperor, and lover.

Tracing Napoleon's extraordinary career, the author examines the Promethean legend from his Corsican roots, through the years of the French Revolution and his military triumphs, to his coronation in and ultimate defeat and imprisonment. In this work McLynn offers a vivid and valuable canvas of, and new dimension to, eighteenth-century European history.

He also brings the reader, as never before, closer to understanding the much mythologized Napoleon. Draws on current research to profile Napoleon as a military leader, lover, and emperor, tracing his career from his Corsican roots through the years of the French Revolution and battle triumphs, and chronicling his coronation and eventual defeat and imprisonment.

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Frank mclynn napoleon biography for kids

Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. Internet Arcade Console Living Room. Open Library American Libraries. Helena is covered in detail, and those passages show us a man who still had his dignity, although everything else had been taken from him. I do not suffer from chimerical fears. McLynn puts forward a theory that Napoleon was slowly poisoned by arsenic.

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