The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon by Robert Morrissey

The Economy of Glory: From Ancien Régime France to the Fall of Napoleon

Robert Morrissey with Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)

272 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary challenging informative medium-paced
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From the outset of Napoleon's career, the charismatic Corsican was compared to mythic heroes of antiquity like Achilles, and even today he remains the apotheosis of French glory, a value deeply embedded in the country's history. From this angle, t...

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