Life of Napoleon
Lives & Memoirs

Life of Napoleon

Ida M. Tarbell

2026

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He was a Corsican provincial with a scholarship and an accent nobody could take seriously. Tarbell moves fast: Toulon, the whiff of grapeshot, Italy, Egypt, the coup, the crown he put on his own head, the campaigns that outran their supply, Moscow, Elba, Waterloo, and the rock in the South Atlantic. A working journalist's account of a career shaped like an explosion.

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33 chapters

  1. 1Chapter I. Napoleon's Youth and Early Surroundings - His School Days at Brienne16m
  2. 2Chapter II. Napoleon in Paris - Lieutenant of Artillery - Literary Work - Napoleon and the Revolution27m
  3. 3Chapter III. Napoleon and Robespierre - Out of Work - General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior16m
  4. 4Chapter IV. Napoleon's Courtship and Marriage - His Devotion to Josephine14m
  5. 5Chapter V. The First Italian Campaign - Napoleon's Way of Making War51m
  6. 6Chapter VI. Napoleon's Return to Paris - The Egyptian Campaign - The 18th Brumaire23m
  7. 7Chapter VII. Statesman and Lawgiver- The Finances- The Industries- The Public Works20m
  8. 8Chapter VIII. Return of the Émigrés.—The Concordat.—Legion of Honor.—Code Napoleon23m
  9. 9Chapter IX. Opposition to the Centralization of the Government - Prosperity of France14m
  10. 10Chapter X. Preparation for War with England - Flotilla at Boulogne - Sale of Louisiana12m
  11. 11Chapter XI. Emperor of the French People - King of Italy22m
  12. 12Chapter XII. Campaigns of 1805, 1806,1807 - Peace of Tilsit25m
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Extension of Napoleon's Empire - Family Affairs17m
  14. 14Chapter XIV. The Berlin Decree-War in the Peninsula- The Bonapartes on the Spanish Throne13m
  15. 15Chapter XV. Disasters in Spain - Erfurt Meeting - Napoleon at Madrid16m
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Talleyrand's Treachery - Campaign of 180913m
  17. 17Chapter XXVII. The Divorce - A New Wife - An Heir to the Crown12m
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Trouble with the Pope - The Conscription - Evasions of the Blockade - The Tilsit Agreement Broken12m
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Russian Campaign - Burning of Moscow - A New Army16m
  20. 20Chapter XX. Campaign of 1813 - Campaign of 1814 - Abdication19m
  21. 21Chapter XXI. Ruler of the Island of Elba - Return to Paris - The Hundred Days - The Second Abdication17m
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Napoleon's Surrender to England - Sent to St. Helena - Life in Exile - Death of Napoleon19m
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. The Second Funeral of Napoleon - Removal of Napoleon's Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 184044m
  24. 24Life of Josephine, Chapter I Family - Early Surroundings - Eugene di Beauharnais - Marriage - Separation from her Husband18m
  25. 25Life of Josephine, Chapter 2 Josephine in the Revolution- Imprisoned at Les Carmes-Struggle for Existence - Marriage with Bonaparte25m
  26. 26Life of Josephine, Chapter 3 Bonaparte Goes to Italy—Josephine at Milan 1796–1797—Triumphal Tour in Italy—Bonaparte Leaves for Egypt29m
  27. 27Life of Josephine, Chapter 4 Bonaparte is Made First Consul—Josephine’s Tact in Public Life—Her Personal Charm—Malmaison19m
  28. 28Life of Josephine, Chapter 5. The Question of Succession- Marriage of Hortense - Josephine Empress of the French People- The Coronation26m
  29. 29Life of Josephine, Chapter 6. Etiquette Regulating Josephine's Life - Royal Journeys - Tact of the Empress - Extravagance in Dress26m
  30. 30Life of Josephine, Chapter 7. Josephine Not Allowed to Go to Poland - Fear of Divorce - The Reconciliation of 1807-1808 - The Campaign of 1809 and Its Effect on Napoleon24m
  31. 31Life of Josephine, Chapter 8. Josephine's Unhappiness- Napoleon's View of a Divorce - The Way in Which the Divorce Was Effected18m
  32. 32Life of Josephine, Chapter 9. After the Divorce - Josephine's Suspicions of the Emperor - Her Gradual Return to Happiness28m
  33. 33ife of Josephine, Chapter 10 Effect on Josephine of isasters in Russia - Anxiety During Campaign of 1813 - Flight from Paris - Death in 181424m
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