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France during the Empire

Year

2013

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

30m

Rating

TVPG

Author

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Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Perhaps because Napoleon rose to power so unexpectedly, his legitimacy was always fragile. Survey the ways in which he built his own glory by transforming Paris and creating a new nobility. Then see how, needing an heir, he divorced Josephine.

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