Slippery Prince
Graham Robb: Napoleon III, 19 June 2003
Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza
by David Baguley.
Louisiana State, 392 pp., £38.50, December 2000,0 8071 2624 1 Show More
by David Baguley.
Louisiana State, 392 pp., £38.50, December 2000,
The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power
by Roger Price.
Cambridge, 507 pp., £55, January 2002,0 521 80830 8 Show More
by Roger Price.
Cambridge, 507 pp., £55, January 2002,
“... that he stood on top of the Vendôme Column in place of his uncle’s statue, he was struck, as David Baguley points out in Napoleon III and His Regime, not by the glory but by the loneliness. In Ham, he wrote a pamphlet on ‘L’Extinction du paupérisme’, explaining, in effect, how much better everything would be if he could just be allowed to get on ... ”