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To the forty or so books he has devoted to the Consulate and the Empire, Thierry Lentz has just added a centerpiece with a fascinating
Napoleon.
Historical dictionary,
published by Perrin editions.
A "puzzle" biography, as the director of the Fondation Napoléon himself puts it, which draws a portrait of the Emperor as deep as it is varied throughout his notices, from "Abdication of 1814" to "Waterloo", by the way. through the countless “Campaigns”.
More unexpectedly, notices devoted to the “Knights of the Faith”, to the “Wolves”, to “Hitler” or to the “First Night of Love” of young Bonaparte show that no aspect of his life, even in its contemporary developments , has not escaped this disciple of Jean Tulard, today one of the most expert connoisseurs of the Napoleonic gesture.
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