Looks at the leaders of the French Revolution, recounts the rise and fall of Napoleon, and discusses his influence on European history

Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon

Biographies & Memoirs

Herold, J. Christopher

Horizon Magazine Editors

Historical

HarperCollins, Publishers

Book by Napoleon, Herold, J. Christopher

Mind of Napoleon: A Selection of His Written and Spoken Words

Napoléon

Reference & Collections

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Mistress to an Age: Madame De Stael

Community & Culture

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Unbiased account of the Swiss people, their history and customs, their literature, art and science, religious turmoil and economic problems.

The Swiss Without Halos

Praeger

This unique book tries to capture every aspect of this violent and turbulent period of European history. It portrays Napoleonic Europe in all its aspects - political, cultural, military, commercial and social. The sweep of events, the host of colourful personalities who followed or fought Napoleon are here revealed in a fluid historical narrative. First published in 1963.

Age of Napoleon

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Looks at the leaders of the French Revolution, recounts the rise and fall of Napoleon, and discusses his influence on European history

The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon

History

Europe

Harmony

THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects — political, cultural, military, commercial, and social. Napoleon’s rise from common origins to enormous political and military power, as well as his ultimate defeat, influenced our modern age in thousands of ways, from the map of Europe to the metric system, from styles of dress and dictators to new conventions of personal behavior.

The Age of Napoleon

Mariner Books

J. Christopher Herold vigorously tells the story of the fierce Madame de Stael, revealing her courageous opposition to Napoleon, her whirlwind affairs with the great intellectuals of her day, and her idealistic rebellion against all that was cynical, tyrannical, and passionless. Germaine de Stael's father was Jacques Necker, the finance minister to Louis XVI, and her mother ran an influential literary-political salon in Paris. Always precocious, at nineteen Germaine married the Swedish ambassador to France, Eric Magnus Baron de Stael-Holstein, and in 1785 took over her mother's salon with great success. Germaine and de Stael lived most of their married life apart. She had many brilliant lovers. Talleyrand was the first, Narbonne, the minister of war, another; Benjamin Constant was her most significant and long-lasting one. She published several political and literary essays, including "A Treatise on the Influence of the Passions upon the Happiness of Individuals and of Nations," which became one of the most important documents of European Romanticism. Her bold philosophical ideas, particularly those in "On Literature," caused feverish commotion in France and were quickly noticed by Napoleon, who saw her salon as a rallying point for the opposition. He eventually exiled her from France. This winner of the 1959 National Book Award is "excellent ... detailed, full of color, movement, great names, and lively incident" -- The New York Times "Mr. Herold's full-bodied biography is clear-eyed, intelligent, and written with abundant wit and zest." -- The Atlantic Monthly

Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael

GROVE PRESS

Mistress to an age: A life of Madame de Staël (Time reading program special edition)

Time-Life-Books

Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael (Time Reading Program Special Edition)

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