Book Overview
The stunning finale to the award-winning Napoleonic trilogy presents the legendary figure as you have never before seen him -- exiled and humiliated and vividly real. Patrick Rambaud closes his epic trilogy, which began with The Battle, winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix Roman de l'Academie Francaise, and The Retreat. In 1814 Napoleon is racing back to Paris from the debacle of his Russian invasion. A plot afoot in the capital -- to return a royal to the throne -- succeeds, and Napoleon's marshals force him to abdicate and go into exile. Octave Senecal, Napoleon's loyal aide and savior, tells the tale of their journey south through the angry, mob-filled countryside to Elba, a tiny island off the coast of Tuscany. Here Patrick Rambaud brings to life not the Napoleon of the history books, but Napoleon the man -- a man horribly bored by exile, gambling with his mother to pass the time, spearing the occasional tuna with local fishermen, and fretting constantly that secret agents and murderers surround him. He is soon planning his escape, while in France his former soldiers spend their evenings drinking to the return of "l'absent." They won't have long to wait.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802118267
ISBN13:9780802118264
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Grove Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.41 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I enjoyed this book very much. I usually read about the large battles and the campaigns of Napoleon's armies. It was an enjoyable "change of pace" to read about the daily life of Napoleon and his close staff. While fiction, the story is very credible and no doubt captures the essence of what it must have been like to live and work near Napoleon during his downfall and exile. If you enjoy reading about Napoleon and his army then do yourself a favor and read Rambaud's three books set during Napoleon's Empire...
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