The Age of Napoleon

The Age of Napoleon surveys the amazing chain of events that wrenched Europe out of the Enlightenment and into the Age of Democracy:

* The French Revolution — -from the storming of the Bastille to the guillotining of the King

* The revolution's leaders Danton, Desmoulins, Robespierre, Saint-Just — -all cut down by the reign of terror they inaugurated.

* Napoleon's meteoric rise — -from the provincial Corsican military student to the Emperor commanding the largest army in history

* Napoleon's fall — -his army's destruction in the snows of Russia, his exile to Elba, escape and reconquest of the throne, and ultimate defeat at Waterloo by the combined forces of Europe.

* The birth of romanticism and the dawning of a new age of active democracy and a rising middle class, laying the foundation for our own era.

• Author
• Will Durant, Ariel Durant

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 870

• Series
• The Story of Civilization

• Publisher
• Fine Communications

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781567310221

• Settings
• France

• Genres
• history, france, biography, philosophy, reference, historical, politics

• Release date
• 1997