and the Russians were open to either the duc d’Orléans, Louis Philippe, or Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Napoleon’s former Marshal, who was in line for the Swedish throne. Napoleon was offered to keep the throne in February 1814 on the condition that France return to its 1792 frontiers, but...
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Europe Before and After Napoleon Bonaparte In the 1700s, several powerful monarchies divided Europe into separate kingdoms. The strongest were Great Britain, Russia, the Holy Roman Empire (dominated by Austria), and France. While the Parliament checked the British king's power, the other kingdoms...
Tsar Alexander I, who ruled the Russian Empire from 1801-1825, had a complicated relationship with Napoleon during the lengthy Napoleonic Wars. He changed Russia’s position relative to France four times between 1804 and 1812 among neutrality, opposition, and alliance. In 1805 he joined Britain ...
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Obsessed with Abel Gance’s four-hour-plus 1927 masterwork “Napoleon” (then just restored in the early 1980s by Kevin Brownlow, with an extremely aged Gance promoting it), Galliano conjured his French Revolution-themed debut show, “Les Incroyables.” Swashbuckling and passionate, it made ...
s continual repudiation of her Jewish heritage, but the more important question is whether early Romanticism it is to blame. Varnhagen’s salon—and, one could say, Romanticism in its true sense—ends with Napoleon seizing Prussia. In that short interval of 1790–1806, Jewish salons like Varn...
shorter than Napoleon, and in early Communist Party photographs, he looked like a schoolboy. Yet he had coordinated some of the biggest battles ever fought in China, battles that changed the course of China’s history and the lives of hundreds of millions. In a country increasingly obsessed wi...
The Pursuit of Victory: From Napoleon to Saddam Hussein Brian Bond. Oxford University Press, 1998 Read preview Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars: Ambivalent Stakes in the Middle East Miron Rezun. Praeger, 1992 Read preview Saddam's Word Political Discourse in Iraq Ofra Bengio. Oxford Univers...
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