Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Napoleon I, Vol. 1: A Biography
In this hope I was not disappointed. The last decade has brought forth works of indisputable value. Dur ing the closing years of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the present one, thousands of hitherto unknown letters of Napoleon have come to light. Many new documents of great value were discovered in the rich storehouse of the Paris arch ives. Research, by investigating the economic pro blems which play such an important part in this period, Opened up a wide field which had hitherto lain practically fallow. Military history threw off its Chauvinistic cloak, and guided by dispassionate oriti cism, contributed much that was vital. Finally, some of the most distinguished historians in France made this subject their theme. Sorel, Chuquet, Vandal, Aulard, and others are now devoting their well attested skill to the times of the great Napoleon. And as the interest in him is not confined to France but reaches far beyond her frontiers, much valuable research is now being done at the sources of the foreign archives. The Germans have long been labouring diligently in this way, but now, British, Italians, Russians, and Americans have entered the field. It is a significant trait of this movement that in Rome, the ideal capital of the world, there is a Revue Napole'onienne which publishes contribu tions in all languages and from all parts of the world dealing with this remarkable man and the remarkable events of his epoch.
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