Violets in Their Lapels
David A. Bell: Bonapartism, 23 June 2005
The Legend of Napoleon
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Granta, 336 pp., £20, August 2004,1 86207 667 7 Show More
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Granta, 336 pp., £20, August 2004,
The Retreat
by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson.
Picador, 320 pp., £7.99, June 2005,0 330 48901 1 Show More
by Patrick Rambaud, translated by William Hobson.
Picador, 320 pp., £7.99, June 2005,
Napoleon: The Eternal Man of St Helena
by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £10.99, April 2005,0 333 90798 1 Show More
by Max Gallo, translated by William Hobson.
Macmillan, 320 pp., £10.99, April 2005,
The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in 19th-Century France
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Harvard, 307 pp., £32.95, May 2004,0 674 01341 7 Show More
by Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Harvard, 307 pp., £32.95, May 2004,
Napoleon and the British
by Stuart Semmel.
Yale, 354 pp., £25, September 2004,0 300 09001 3 Show More
by Stuart Semmel.
Yale, 354 pp., £25, September 2004,
“... and a fair share of devotion. Two recent series of French novels illustrate these points. Patrick Rambaud’s polished trilogy, of which two volumes (The Battle, The Retreat) have so far appeared in English, treats the emperor with fascinated scorn. The three parts move from the horrific 1809 battle of Essling, in which 40,000 men died in 30 ... ”
