Napoleon's Letters - J. M. Thompson (ed.)

TÍTULO: Napoleon's Letters

AUTOR: J. M. Thompson (ed.)

EDITORIAL: Prion

AÑO DE EDICIÓN: 1998

PÁGINAS: 332

FORMATO: Rústica, 13,5 x 21,5 cm.

• ISBN: 9781853752698

• Estado: Bueno.

• Selected, Translated and Edited by J. M. Thompson, Late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

During his fifteen years of rule, Napoleon was a tireless letter writer. He would dictate around the clock to his secretary, wherever they were. His dictation would resemble a vigorous téte-á-téte as though his correspondent were there in the room. Whether seated of the hour-glass-shaped desk of his own design

of Sainf-Cloud with its busts of Caesar and Hannibal or pacing in

his blue and white fent above the battlefield, the leather portfolios marked "Despafches from the Emperor" would come and go

everyday without fa¡l.

This selection oí 300 of Napoleon's letters from the 40,000 that ...

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