Romping through Europe.(The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805)(Book review)

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FREDERICK W. KAGAN. The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe 1801-1805. PERSEUS BOOKS. 774 PAGES. $40.00

NAPOLEON WAS NOT only a great man; he was also a great PR man, a self-promoter of the first rank: Throughout his career, he carefully fashioned the image of himself as the ultimate romantic hero and man of action, an image that was reinforced by the memoirs of his closest associates. And after his body was brought back to France from St. Helena on the oddly named warship La Belle Poule in 1840 and re-interred in brooding majesty at Les Invalides, a regular Bonaparte ...

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