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,
“... While Hazareesingh finds unexpected evidence of admiration for Napoleon in 19th-century France, Stuart Semmel finds the same, more surprisingly, in 19th-century Britain. He demonstrates that even at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, when most Britons were reviling the emperor as the ‘Corsican Ogre’, a significant minority remained admirers. This ... ”
