The Napoleonic Empire Classic Reprint

Author : Frank Halliday Cheetham
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ISBN 13 : 9781330902073
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Halliday Cheetham and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Louis Napoleon and the Genesis of the Second Empire The hundred years that now separate us from the birth of Napoleon III, and the thirty-five years which have intervened since his death, ought to make it possible to arrive at something like an impartial and fair estimate of that remarkable man's personality and character. The fierce light that beats upon a throne has perhaps never beaten so fiercely as it did on that of the last sovereign who ruled over France. Compared with it, the gentle beam that fell on the throne shared by him to whom the words were addressed by the late Laureate was but a feeble and kindly ray. But long before the throne was reached Louis Napoleon had courted the strong light of publicity, and in its glare all his many faults and failings were relentlessly and conspicuously revealed. Such a light is hardly calculated to throw into relief those balancing good qualities which are perhaps the real basis of most men's characters, and in the case of Louis Napoleon many of his public acts before his advent to power were scarcely of a kind to win him the admiration or confidence of a public who knew him only by what may be termed his appearances on the stage. No public man, perhaps, has been the object of so much calumny and misrepresentation, and few public men have met calumny with so much dignity. The campaign of abuse directed upon him during the days of the Presidency was more than surpassed when the Empire collapsed at Sedan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.