Authors: Will Durant, Ariel Durant Year: 1975 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Philosophy, Historical fiction, Politics
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ISBNs: 9781567310221 1567310222 |
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The Age of Napoleon surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the Age of Democracy: * The French Revolution---from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the King * The revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just---all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated. * Napoleon's meteoric rise---from the provincial Corsican military student to the Emperor commanding the largest army in history * Napoleon's fall---his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, escape and reconquest of the throne, and ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe. * The birth of romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for our own era.
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