Napoleon: Life, Expeditions and Addresses

This book presents the general history of Napoleon Bonaparte the great Emperor of France: his life, his expeditions and addresses. Among the eminent persons of the nineteenth century, Napoleon Bonaparte is far the best known and the most powerful; and owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men . (Ralph W. Emerson)