France Under Napoleon
By (Author) Louis Bergeron
Translated by R. R. Palmer
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 1982
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
944.05
Paperback
232
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
369g
Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following thei
"Bergeron, a distinguished French historian with sympathies for the Annales school, has produced an excellent social history of France in the Napoleonic period... Highly recommended."--Library Journal