Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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Pierre Mondy
Napoléon Bonaparte
Martine Carol
Joséphine de Beauharnais
Claudia Cardinale
Pauline Bonaparte
Leslie Caron
Mlle de Vaudey
Vittorio De Sica
le pape Pie VII
Elvira Popescu
Lætitia Bonaparte
Jean Marais
Carnot
Michel Simon
Alboise
Orson Welles
Robert Fulton
Georges Marchal
Le maréchal Jean Lannes
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In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to the French people and convinced him he was destined for greatness. Learn of his love for Josephine Beauharnais, and his rise to Emperor. Witness his extraordinary achievements and ultimately his fall, his final battles, his exile to Elba, and his defeat at Waterloo. For nearly two decades he strode the world stage like a colossus -- loved and despised, venerated and feared. From his birth on the rugged island of Corsica to his final exile on the godforsaken island of St. Helena, NAPOLEON brings this extraordinary figure to life.
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Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
