The Eagle in Splendour 1st Edition by Philip Mansel 9780857738950 085773895X

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• ISBN 10: 085773895X
• ISBN 13: 9780857738950
• Author:  Philip Mansel 

“When I think of the great Emperor, in my mind’s eye it is summer again, all gold and green.” Heine The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, surpassed even that of that the Sun King. Napoleon’s palaces at Saint-Cloud and the Tuileries were the centres of his power, the dazzling reflection of the greatest empire in modern European history. Napoleon’s military conquests changed the world and dominate most portraits of him, but it was through the splendour of his court – a world fashioned beyond the battlefield – that Napoleon governed his empire. Using the unpublished papers of the Emperor’s leading courtiers, and his second Empress Marie Louise, Philip Mansel brings to life the intoxicated world of a court ‘devoured by ambition’ as Stendhal called it : its visual magnificence and rigid hierarchy; mistresses, artists and manipulators. The life of the court illuminates the life of Napoleon himself and the nature of a personality that conquered half the world yet, in the end, was abandoned by his dynasty and his courtiers, his past glories fading into lonely and ignominious exile.

Table contents:

1 Steps to the Throne
2 The Emperor and his Court
3 A Passion for Palaces
4 The Courtiers
5 Ends and Means
6 The Family Courts
7 Power and Illusion
8 The Return to Grandeur

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