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In Napoleon Bonaparte's novella, triumphant soldier Clisson
turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries
Eugenie, and they live the simple life until Clisson is called back
into battle.
The tragic story of Clisson and Eugenie reveals that Napoleon
was also an accomplished writer of fiction, and offers a
fascinating insight into how he viewed love, women, and military
life.
Aged twenty-six, having already known success as a soldier,
Napoleon was at a low ebb both professionally and personally when
he began "Clisson and Eugenie," and there are parallels between his
life and their story.
Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French
novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains taking task of
collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public
speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged into four themes
(covering social life, the military arts, the exercise of power and
the teachings of experience and misfortune), Napoleon's pithy pills
of wisdom - often Machiavellian, cynical, dry and sometimes cruel -
offer a unique insight into the mind of a man who prided himself on
preferring action over thought and the sword over the pen, and
conjure up one of the most eminent and influential historical
figures of all time.
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
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