Napoleon I, Emperor of France

At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading...

The novel is set in Europe during the Napoleon ic era, only a few years in the past. Lingering fears of Napoleonic invasion made its subject highly topical for Porter's English readers. The brothers are...

This novel encompasses three generations. Abraham Gollantz enters the story in Paris in the 1790s, having travelled from Rotterdam to learn the business of art dealing from Fernando Meldola, his father's oldest friend, an Italian...

This lively play deals with smuggling, farming, and carpet-making (an important local industry) in South Devon during the Napoleon ic wars. AJ enlisted the aid of the Exeter Folk Arts Workshop to help weave traditional...

This fragment depicts a seaside resort, often identified as Brighton, under development after Napoleon 's first defeat had freed the south coast from the threat of invasion, but before the war returned with his...

The heroine of this novel operates in male disguise in the exotic world of sea-rovers. The action involves the bloody rebellion of 1802 on San Domingo (now Haiti) when Napoleon sent military force in an...

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only...

Publishers Weekly praised, as well as the mingling of irony and pathos in the novel's tone, its effortless presentation of abstruse research into daily life in Enlightenment-era Saxony, German reactions to the French Revolution...

The book attracted attacks from Catholics and from specialists with more knowledge than GS . One politician criticised her for attempting such a large topic, allegedly outside the realm of a woman's proper sphere. It...

Napoleon himself read this book and was incensed. He accused HMW of falsehood through his ghostwritten, posthumous Napoleon in Exile, 1822.

Benjamin Constant , formerly the lover of GS , represented her in his novel Adolphe as a woman whose mind was the most wide-ranging of any woman ever, and perhaps of any man, and...

Anne Thackeray witnessed as a small child the second funeral of Napoleon in Paris. Her memories of this event were published in Chapters from Some Memoirs, 1894.

Under the rule of Napoleon , both as consul and as emperor, says the editor of GE 's journal, she again moved in the higher circles.

In Paris the Opies did some intensive looking at pictures. (Napoleon 's habit of looting the art treasures of countries he conquered had much increased the stores on view.)