A Life of Napoleon


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Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act. She was also an acclaimed biographer, known for her extensive works on the lives of Lincoln and Napoleon. Her research is exhaustive, and her prose is brisk and engaging. This biography finishes with an 115 page "sketch" of the Empress Josephine. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

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Chapter I. Napoleon's Youth and Early Surroundings - His School Days at Brienne 15:57 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter II. Napoleon in Paris - Lieutenant of Artillery - Literary Work - Napoleon and the Revolution 27:08 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter III. Napoleon and Robespierre - Out of Work - General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior 15:50 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter IV. Napoleon's Courtship and Marriage - His Devotion to Josephine 13:47 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter V. The First Italian Campaign - Napoleon's Way of Making War 51:14 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter VI. Napoleon's Return to Paris - The Egyptian Campaign - The 18th Brumaire 22:37 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter VII. Statesman and Lawgiver- The Finances- The Industries- The Public Works 19:38 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter VIII. Return of the Émigrés.—The Concordat.—Legion of Honor.—Code Napoleon 23:02 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter IX. Opposition to the Centralization of the Government - Prosperity of France 13:30 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter X. Preparation for War with England - Flotilla at Boulogne - Sale of Louisiana 11:37 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XI. Emperor of the French People - King of Italy 21:46 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XII. Campaigns of 1805, 1806,1807 - Peace of Tilsit 24:44 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XIII. Extension of Napoleon's Empire - Family Affairs 16:38 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XIV. The Berlin Decree-War in the Peninsula- The Bonapartes on the Spanish Throne 12:58 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XV. Disasters in Spain - Erfurt Meeting - Napoleon at Madrid 15:56 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XVI. Talleyrand's Treachery - Campaign of 1809 13:01 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XXVII. The Divorce - A New Wife - An Heir to the Crown 11:47 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XVIII. Trouble with the Pope - The Conscription - Evasions of the Blockade - The Tilsit Agreement Broken 11:34 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XIX. Russian Campaign - Burning of Moscow - A New Army 16:10 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XX. Campaign of 1813 - Campaign of 1814 - Abdication 18:50 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XXI. Ruler of the Island of Elba - Return to Paris - The Hundred Days - The Second Abdication 16:42 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XXII. Napoleon's Surrender to England - Sent to St. Helena - Life in Exile - Death of Napoleon 19:07 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Chapter XXIII. The Second Funeral of Napoleon - Removal of Napoleon's Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 1840 44:11 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter I Family - Early Surroundings - Eugene di Beauharnais - Marriage - Separation from her Husband 17:50 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 2 Josephine in the Revolution- Imprisoned at Les Carmes-Struggle for Existence - Marriage with Bonaparte 25:25 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 3 Bonaparte Goes to Italy—Josephine at Milan 1796–1797—Triumphal Tour in Italy—Bonaparte Leaves for Egypt 29:13 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 4 Bonaparte is Made First Consul—Josephine’s Tact in Public Life—Her Personal Charm—Malmaison 18:37 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 5. The Question of Succession- Marriage of Hortense - Josephine Empress of the French People- The Coronation 25:57 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 6. Etiquette Regulating Josephine's Life - Royal Journeys - Tact of the Empress - Extravagance in Dress 26:07 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 7. Josephine Not Allowed to Go to Poland - Fear of Divorce - The Reconciliation of 1807-1808 - The Campaign of 1809 and Its Effect on Napoleon 23:49 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 8. Josephine's Unhappiness- Napoleon's View of a Divorce - The Way in Which the Divorce Was Effected 18:29 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 9. After the Divorce - Josephine's Suspicions of the Emperor - Her Gradual Return to Happiness 28:28 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Life of Josephine, Chapter 10 Effect on Josephine of Disasters in Russia - Anxiety During Campaign of 1813 - Flight from Paris - Death in 1814 24:24 Read by Ciufi Galeazzi