Philippe Henri de Segur was a French officer-an aide de camp-on Napoleon's staff-who served with the Grand Army throughout the Russian Campaign of 1812. This made him the ideal author for its history. He witnessed the early successes of the French and allied armies and the pyrrhic victory of Borodino. He accompanied Napoleon to the Kremlin and saw Moscow burning. By no means least, he was able to report the nightmare retreat through the snows of winter which brought about the destruction of an army and the beginning of the end of Napoleon and the golden epoch of the First Empire. Segur has created a memorable work-part history-part first hand account-which takes the reader vividly to the heart of these terrible events whilst clearly explaining their sequence. Originally published in two substantial volumes, Segur's entire work appears here its entirety-in a single comprehensive edition from Leonaur.

Cet ouvrage contient les correspondances actives et passives de Jules Houel avec Joseph-Marie De Tilly, Gaston Darboux et Victor-Amedee Le Besgue ainsi qu'une introduction qui se focalise sur la decouverte de l'impossibilite de demontrer le postulat des paralleles d'Euclide et l'apparition des premiers exemples de fonctions continues non derivables. Jules Houel (1823-1886) a occupe une place particuliere dans les mathematiques en France durant la seconde partie du 19eme siecle. Par ses travaux de traduction et ses recensions, il a vivement contribue a la reception de la geometrie non euclidienne de Bolyai et Lobatchevski ainsi qu'aux debats sur les fondements de l'analyse. Il se situe au centre d'un vaste reseau international de correspondances en lien avec son role de redacteur pour le Bulletin des sciences mathematiques et astronomiques.

Philippe Henri de Segur was a French officer-an aide de camp-on Napoleon's staff-who served with the Grand Army throughout the Russian Campaign of 1812. This made him the ideal author for its history. He witnessed the early successes of the French and allied armies and the pyrrhic victory of Borodino. He accompanied Napoleon to the Kremlin and saw Moscow burning. By no means least, he was able to report the nightmare retreat through the snows of winter which brought about the destruction of an army and the beginning of the end of Napoleon and the golden epoch of the First Empire. Segur has created a memorable work-part history-part first hand account-which takes the reader vividly to the heart of these terrible events whilst clearly explaining their sequence. Originally published in two substantial volumes, Segur's entire work appears here its entirety-in a single comprehensive edition from Leonaur.

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