CONTENTS

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON:
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I.Youth and Early Surroundings.—School Days at Brienne[17]
II.In Paris.—Lieutenant of Artillery.—Literary Work.—The Revolution[27]
III.Robespierre.—Out of Work.—First Success[43]
IV.Courtship and Marriage.—Devotion To Josephine[53]
V.Italian Campaign.—Rules of War[61]
VI.Return To Paris.—Egyptian Campaign.—The 18th Brumaire[89]
VII.Statesman and Lawgiver.—The Finances.—The Industries.—The Public Works[105]
VIII.Return of the Émigrés.—The Concordat.—Legion of Honor.—Code Napoleon[119]
IX.Opposition to the Centralization of the Government.—Prosperity of France[133]
X.Preparations for War with England.—Flotilla at Boulogne.—Sale of Louisiana[143]
XI.Emperor of the French People.—King of Italy[151]
XII.Campaigns of 1805, 1806, 1807.—Peace of Tilsit[163]
XIII.Extension of Napoleon’s Empire.—Family Affairs[179]
XIV.Berlin Decree.—Peninsular War.—The Bonapartes on the Spanish Throne[191]
XV.Disasters in Spain.—Erfurt Meeting.—Napoleon at Madrid[199]
XVI.Talleyrand’s Treachery.—Campaign of 1809[211]
XVII.Divorce of Josephine.—Marriage with Marie Louise.—Birth of the King of Rome.[221]
XVIII.Trouble with the Pope.—The Conscription.—The Tilsit Agreement Broken[229]
XIX.Russian Campaign.—Burning of Moscow.—A New Army[241]
XX.Campaign of 1813.—Campaign of 1814.—Abdication[253]
XXI.Elba.—The Hundred Days.—The Second Abdication[265]
XXII.Surrender to English.—St. Helena.—Death[279]
XXIII.The Second Funeral[295]
SKETCH OF JOSEPHINE—EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH:
I.Family.—Early Surroundings.—Alexander de Beauharnais.—Marriage.—Separation from Husband[325]
II.Josephine in the Revolution.—Imprisoned at Les Carmes.—Struggle for Existence.—Marriage with Bonaparte[334]
III.Bonaparte Goes to Italy.—Josephine at Milan 1796–1797.—Triumphal Tour in Italy.—Bonaparte Leaves for Egypt[346]
IV.Bonaparte is Made First Consul.—Josephine’s Tact in Public Life.—Her Personal Charm.—Malmaison[360]
V.The Question of Succession.—Marriage of Hortense.—Josephine Empress of the French People.—The Coronation[371]
VI.Etiquette Regulating Josephine’s Life.—Royal Journeys.—Extravagance in Dress[386]
VII.Josephine not Allowed to Go to Poland.—Fear of Divorce.—The Reconciliation of 1807–1808.—The Campaign of 1809 and its Effect on Napoleon[399]
VIII.Napoleon Returns to France.—Josephine’s Unhappiness.—Napoleon’s View of a Divorce.—The Way in Which the Divorce was Effected[413]
IX.After the Divorce.—Navarre.—Josephine’s Suspicions of the Emperor.—Her Gradual Return to Happiness[423]
X.Effect on Josephine of Disasters in Russia.—Anxiety During Campaign of 1813.—Flight from Paris.—Death in 1814[440]
Handwriting of Napoleon at Different Periods[453]
Table of the Bonaparte Family[464]
Chronology of the Life of Napoleon Bonaparte[469]
Index[477]