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79 totalTHE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 5 - THE MODERN REGIME, VOLUME 1 [NAPOLEON] - by Hippolyte A. Taine
PREFACE
BOOK FIRST. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS.
I. Napoleon's Past and Personality.
II. The Leader and Statesman
III. His acute Understanding of Others.
IV. His Wonderful Memory.
V. His Imagination and its Excesses.
CHAPTER II. HIS IDEAS, PASSIONS AND INTELLIGENCE.
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Part of the series Origins of contemporary France. [v.5-6]
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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Svend Rom and David Widger
Release date
Jun 22, 2008
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Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Hippolyte Taine
1828–1893
A major French critic, historian, and philosopher, Hippolyte Taine sought to explain literature, art, and history through the forces of society, environment, and circumstance. His influential ideas helped shape literary naturalism and modern historical criticism.
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