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The Mortal Napoleon III
By (Author) Roger Lawrence Williams
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
944.07092
Paperback
236
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
312g
A reappraisal of Napoleon the man. Roger Williams' biographical study shows how medical evidence can be used as historical data to refine our view of the past. For an accurate picture, he examines the medical evidence of the case, the emperor's psychological make-up, and the external pressures on him: the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars, governmen