11.25 x 11.38 in.  444 pages.

This luxerious, elegant volume is a Napoleonic museum within covers. Its pages are filled with hundreds of paintings, engravings, maps, and reproductions of original letters covering Napoleon's career as soldier, lover, and imperial head of state.

These works of art are complemented by the memoirs and recollections of the two men who were most regularly in Napoleon's company during his years of supremacy: Baron Claude-François de Meneval, Napoleon's Secretary, and Constant Wairy, the Emperor's first valet. They provide detailed insight into Napoleon's acts of state and military campaigns, his home life and daily routine, his physical ailments and personal obsessions, and his relationship with Josephine and his love affairs.

Many of the color illustrations come from the Napoleonic collection at Versailles. Others are from Malmaison, the house where Napoleon lived, the Marmottan Library in Paris, and the Historical Library of the City of Paris. Some of the artists represented here were eyewitnesses to the events, and other drew on historic records. Many of the lithographs are from rare, older volumes of Napoleonic history, and have not seen the light of day in this century.

Napoleon, An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy, 1800 to 1814, provides an intimate record of the life of one of the most influential men in world history. Whether you think of Napoleon as a military dictator or as the inventor of the Napoleonic Code, his story, from Corsican soldier to French Emperor to exile, remains one of the great sagas of the Western world. His passage through history left Paris with public libraries, schools, markets, water mains, theaters, and an efficient postal system. To France he gave a code of laws, a commercial transport system, and a new system of roads and numbering for street addresses. This is a unique book, an invaluable and visually stunning contribution to the literature of the legendary Napoleon Bonaparte.

The Proctor Jones Publishing Co.
Distributed in the U.S. by Random House   ISBN 0-67941-458-4

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