Napoleon’s Letters to Josephine 1796-1812 by Napoleon I

Description

The early letters — feverish, possessive, helplessly in love — are among the most extraordinary documents the modern era produced, readable as both passion and pathology. As Napoleon rises, they harden; duty, glory, and the endless demands of a continent take the place of the beloved’s name, until the divorce makes its cold appearance.

Read as a whole, the collection is a biography in one hand: the young artillery officer, the conquering general, the emperor, the man. Scholars have used it for two centuries, yet it remains first of all a human story, and an astonishing one.

Why readers still come back to it

• Napoleon’s own hand across sixteen years of his rise.
• Begins in adoration, ends in statecraft — a complete arc.
• Intimate, dramatic, and impossible to forget.

About this DodaBooks edition

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