The Napoleonic code.(The Age of Napoleon)(Book Review)

New Criterion | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

Alistair Horne The Age of Napoleon. Modern Library, 240 pages, $21.95

In 1801, First Consul for Life Napoleon Bonaparte sent an army of 35,000 men to take control of the city of New Orleans, the key to the vast territory returned to France in 1800 by secret treaty with Spain. Along the way, the expeditionary force was supposed to make a quick detour and put down Toussaint L'Ouverture's slave revolt on Hispaniola, thus securing French influence in the Caribbean and, incidentally, a source of refined sugar to feed France's insatiable sweet tooth. As with many of ...

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