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pp. 439, b/w illustrations, the biography of the nephew of Napoleon, leader of the Second Empire. “In Bierman’s delightfully disdainful biography, Louis Napoleon, the bungling, sexually athletic ruler of France’s Second Empire, emerges as an implausible monarch. When Parisian workers took to the barricades in 1848, this rakehell was busy gambling and enjoying his English mistress, the courtesan Harriet Howard. A few months later he would be elected president. Proclaiming himself Emperor Napoleon III, he took countless lovers and led his country into one senseless war after another. Dissolute and muddleheaded, he clashed constantly with his frigid wife, Empress Eugenie, who combined a vast ignorance of the world with decided opinions on every facet of foreign policy.”
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| ISBN | 0312018274 | |
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| ISBN13 | 9780312018276 | |
| Number of pages | 439 | |
| Original Title | Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire | |
| Published Date | 1988 | |
| Book Condition | Very Good | |
| Jacket Condition | Very Good | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Size | 8vo | |
| Place of Publication | New York | |
| Edition | First Edition | |
| Category: | French History | |
| Author: | John Bierman | |
| Publisher: | St Martins Pr |
pp. 439, b/w illustrations, the biography of the nephew of Napoleon, leader of the Second Empire. “In Bierman’s delightfully disdainful biography, Louis Napoleon, the bungling, sexually athletic ruler of France’s Second Empire, emerges as an implausible monarch. When Parisian workers took to the barricades in 1848, this rakehell was busy gambling and enjoying his English mistress, the courtesan Harriet Howard. A few months later he would be elected president. Proclaiming himself Emperor Napoleon III, he took countless lovers and led his country into one senseless war after another. Dissolute and muddleheaded, he clashed constantly with his frigid wife, Empress Eugenie, who combined a vast ignorance of the world with decided opinions on every facet of foreign policy.”
| Weight | 1 kg |
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