FRENCH LANGUAGE
The first comprehensive history of this exceptional period, the birthplace of modern France.
The history of the Hundred Days never ceases to fascinate, and rightly so. Between March and July 1815, an unprecedented year, France went from Louis XVIII to... Louis XVIII, after Napoleon's ...
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FRENCH LANGUAGE
The first comprehensive history of this exceptional period, the birthplace of modern France.
The history of the Hundred Days never ceases to fascinate, and rightly so. Between March and July 1815, an unprecedented year, France went from Louis XVIII to... Louis XVIII, after Napoleon's spectacular return and the brief provisional government led by Joseph Fouché, former and future Minister of Police. The war of legitimacy between the bee and the lily is coupled with a new European war, which ends in the terrible debacle of Waterloo, the swan song of French domination in Europe. Incredible period, formidable actors. In addition to Napoleon and Louis XVIII, the reader sees Talleyrand, Fouché, Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, Marshals Ney and Grouchy, Wellington, Blücher, and so many other famous or forgotten people. This exceptional moment attracted the greatest writers, politicians and historians, each one driven by his sympathy or his repulsion for the imperial gesture and its tragic end.
French language
672 pages
Perrin Publishers
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