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Books that show the Napoleon as the good guy?

>> No.23073232

>>23073226
the Napoleon?

>> No.23073235

Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts

>> No.23073240

>>23073232
I don't know why I typed "the" there. But the question still stands.

>> No.23073256

>>23073235
Thank you.

>> No.23073259

>>23073226
Napoleon by Victor Cronin is my favorite Nappy bio. It's a narrative history.

>> No.23074396

Books that show the Napoleon as the bad guy?

>> No.23074434

>>23073226
>starts dumb wars for no reason that result in the deaths of about six million europeans
>emancipates the jews, and makes jewish bankers richer than they were ever before in history as a result of his wars and their aftermaths
>spreads jacobin ideas
>the "good guy"
The only thing he deserves from posterity is spit on his grave.

>> No.23074587

>>23074434
>Napoléon’s first act on assuming power as First Consul on 9 November 1799, was to establish the Banque de France on 18 January 1800 as a joint stock company, which commenced operations on 20 February of that year. This Bank replaced the 15, mainly Jewish, private banking houses which had been deeply involved in the events leading up to the Jewish revolution against the French people
>The family's emergence in the world of high finance started with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), founder of and a moneylender at Frankfurt am Main; financial adviser (1801) to the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel; agent of the British government in subsidizing European sovereigns in wars against Napoleon.
>From London in 1813 to 1815, Nathan Mayer Rothschild was instrumental in almost single-handedly financing the British war effort, organising the shipment of bullion to the Duke of Wellington's armies across Europe, as well as arranging the payment of British financial subsidies to their continental allies. In 1815 alone, the Rothschilds provided £9.8 million (equivalent to about £710 million in 2019) in subsidy loans to Britain's continental allies.[24]

>> No.23074722

Michael Broers has a 3 volume biography which was finished last year that's fantastic. It's written by an anglo but still manages to be objective, often even sympathetic to napoleon the man.

>> No.23075048

>>23073232
Yes. The Napopean. As in "the Christ" or "the Furher". Napeolean is worthy of such a prefix.

>> No.23075054

>>23073226
Crime and Punishment

>> No.23075075

>>23073226
Stendhal

>> No.23075079

>>23074434
100%
Gave Europe the best constitutional system, and schools and the aristocracy never recovered after he made them look like clowns.

>> No.23075080

>>23075075
Really?
I thought Maupassant was the Napoleon guy
Is Stendhal difficult to read?

>> No.23075087

>>23073232
I mean we have
>Napoopan II
>Napoopan III
and then
>THE Napoopan

>> No.23075089

>>23075080
No, he is a great read.

>> No.23075102

>>23075089
I thought he wrote much later than he did
I'll have to give it a miss for now then, I still find Maupassant and Balzac to be very difficult to read and I figure he'll be similar

>> No.23075131

>>23075102
18th century and early xix century writers are usually easier to read than later writers.
Similarly to how Jane Austen is easier to read than later English writers.

The chartreuse of parm reads like an adventure novel in the style of the count of montechristo. But the red and the black is my favorite, a very classic narrative of a guy who is way too ambitious (kinda like napoleon)

>> No.23076030

>>23073226
all of them

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>> No.23077282

I mentioned this in another thread, full story time.
>community college professor is a former bomber pilot from fuck knows what war, korea? vietnam? going over the hump in wwii and looked really good for his age?
>went to a swiss boarding school or something vaguely germanic
>smoked at least 2 packs a day
>hence how I got to know him so well after classes
>entire semester of Western Civ 2 (I matriculated late and missed 1) quickly became about how the french revolution was a mistake
>THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS A GODDAMN MISTAKE LIKE EVE EATING THE APPLE WAS A MISTAKE
>spoke fluent latin but didn't flex it too hard
>had read everything napoleon had ever written, had no particular thoughts on him that I could reckon
>a great man with great ambition who did things that had far reaching consequences that we still deal with, was my thought at age 20, he respected my ability to sit on a fence and we joked about Milton
>non serviam
>I think he died like 3 years later from 6 different types of cancer the smoking held off.

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>> No.23078733

>>23073235
I find it funny how in America they had to market this book instead as "Napoleon: A Life" because if you call anything great other than America, Americans will lose their shit

>> No.23078737

I read half of the first Max Gallo book on Napoleon and Max is just incredibly obnoxious
The guy has a terrible, infuriating style of writing and I just couldn't get through it
Do not recommend

>> No.23078957

>>23078733
How many of us do you know personally?

>> No.23078959

>>23073226
I have Napoleon by Alan Schom and Napoleon Against Russia by Digby Smith

>> No.23080121

>>23074434
>starts dumb wars
>starts

>> No.23080142 [DELETED] 

>>23073226
Works by Victor Hugo about Napoleon ;)

>> No.23080182

>>23075080
>Is Stendhal difficult to read?
Nope. Easy and leisure.

>> No.23081139

>>23073226
not many in english.
belloc's biography and englund's are favorable. carlyle is ambivalent in on heroes and the french revolution.

>> No.23081912

>>23073226
Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz

>> No.23082530

>>23078733
Meds. Now. On one of the most famous American novels, read by every American student - "Fitzgerald had difficulty choosing a title for his novel and entertained many choices before reluctantly deciding on The Great Gatsby, a title inspired by Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes."

>> No.23082644

>>23074434
american education

>> No.23082839

>>23074434
anglo has posted

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>>23082644
What part of America are you talking about? Here in New Orleans we love Napoleon. Two of our major avenues are named after him (the grand Napoleon Ave right through the middle of historic Uptown) and West Napoleon (one of the 6 major east-west corridors through the west suburbs, and the only one of the 6 named after a person (only other one named after persons is Veterans named in honor of war vets).

Then one of our best historic restaurants in the French Quarter is Napoleon House (a US a National Historic Landmark), which is so named because it was intended as a residence for Napoleon Bonaparte after his exile. A plan to bring Napoleon to Louisiana was halted by news of his death in 1821.

You can see the Napoleon statue there behind the bar

You also have towns in the US named after Napoleon in Louisiana, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri

etc