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The Eagle in Splendour - Inside the Court of Napoleon (Paperback)
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The Eagle in Splendour - Inside the Court of Napoleon (Paperback)
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"When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind's eye it is summer
again, all gold and green." Heinrich Heine The court of Napoleon I,
in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the
Sun King. Napoleon's palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were
the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest
empire in modern European history. Napoleon's military conquests
changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was
through the splendour of his court - a world fashioned beyond the
battlefield - that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the
unpublished papers of the Emperor's leading courtiers, and his
second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the
intoxicated world of a court 'devoured by ambition' as Stendhal
called it: its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy, mistresses,
artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the
life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that
conquered half the world. Yet, he was in the end abandoned by his
dynasty and courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and
ignominious exile.
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