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Eagle in Splendour

Name: Eagle in Splendour
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 36540956
Price: 13.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Philip Mansel
ISBN: 9780755645831

Philip Mansel

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 36540956

Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing, August 2021

"When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heinri... Full description

Libristo code: 36540956

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"When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer again, all gold and green." Heinrich Heine

The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history.

Napoleon's military conquests changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was through the splendour of his court - a world fashioned beyond the battlefield - that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers, and his second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the intoxicated world of a court 'devoured by ambition' as Stendhal called it: its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy, mistresses, artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that conquered half the world. Yet, he was in the end abandoned by his dynasty and courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and ignominious exile.