Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act. She was also an acclaimed biographer, known for her extensive works on the lives of Lincoln and Napoleon. Her research is exhaustive, and her prose is brisk and engaging. This biography finishes with an 115 page "sketch" of the Empress Josephine. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Chapter I. Napoleon's Youth and Early Surroundings - His School Days at Brienne
15:57 - Chapter 2
Chapter II. Napoleon in Paris - Lieutenant of Artillery - Literary Work - Napoleon and the Revolution
27:08 - Chapter 3
Chapter III. Napoleon and Robespierre - Out of Work - General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior
15:50 - Chapter 4
Chapter IV. Napoleon's Courtship and Marriage - His Devotion to Josephine
13:47 - Chapter 5
Chapter V. The First Italian Campaign - Napoleon's Way of Making War
51:14 - Chapter 6
Chapter VI. Napoleon's Return to Paris - The Egyptian Campaign - The 18th Brumaire
22:37 - Chapter 7
Chapter VII. Statesman and Lawgiver- The Finances- The Industries- The Public Works
19:38 - Chapter 8
Chapter VIII. Return of the Émigrés.—The Concordat.—Legion of Honor.—Code Napoleon
23:02 - Chapter 9
Chapter IX. Opposition to the Centralization of the Government - Prosperity of France
13:30 - Chapter 10
Chapter X. Preparation for War with England - Flotilla at Boulogne - Sale of Louisiana
11:37 - Chapter 11
Chapter XI. Emperor of the French People - King of Italy
21:46 - Chapter 12
Chapter XII. Campaigns of 1805, 1806,1807 - Peace of Tilsit
24:44 - Chapter 13
Chapter XIII. Extension of Napoleon's Empire - Family Affairs
16:38 - Chapter 14
Chapter XIV. The Berlin Decree-War in the Peninsula- The Bonapartes on the Spanish Throne
12:58 - Chapter 15
Chapter XV. Disasters in Spain - Erfurt Meeting - Napoleon at Madrid
15:56 - Chapter 16
Chapter XVI. Talleyrand's Treachery - Campaign of 1809
13:01 - Chapter 17
Chapter XXVII. The Divorce - A New Wife - An Heir to the Crown
11:47 - Chapter 18
Chapter XVIII. Trouble with the Pope - The Conscription - Evasions of the Blockade - The Tilsit Agreement Broken
11:34 - Chapter 19
Chapter XIX. Russian Campaign - Burning of Moscow - A New Army
16:10 - Chapter 20
Chapter XX. Campaign of 1813 - Campaign of 1814 - Abdication
18:50 - Chapter 21
Chapter XXI. Ruler of the Island of Elba - Return to Paris - The Hundred Days - The Second Abdication
16:42 - Chapter 22
Chapter XXII. Napoleon's Surrender to England - Sent to St. Helena - Life in Exile - Death of Napoleon
19:07 - Chapter 23
Chapter XXIII. The Second Funeral of Napoleon - Removal of Napoleon's Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 1840
44:11 - Chapter 24
Life of Josephine, Chapter I Family - Early Surroundings - Eugene di Beauharnais - Marriage - Separation from her Husband
17:50 - Chapter 25
Life of Josephine, Chapter 2 Josephine in the Revolution- Imprisoned at Les Carmes-Struggle for Existence - Marriage with Bonaparte
25:25 - Chapter 26
Life of Josephine, Chapter 3 Bonaparte Goes to Italy—Josephine at Milan 1796–1797—Triumphal Tour in Italy—Bonaparte Leaves for Egypt
29:13 - Chapter 27
Life of Josephine, Chapter 4 Bonaparte is Made First Consul—Josephine’s Tact in Public Life—Her Personal Charm—Malmaison
18:37 - Chapter 28
Life of Josephine, Chapter 5. The Question of Succession- Marriage of Hortense - Josephine Empress of the French People- The Coronation
25:57 - Chapter 29
Life of Josephine, Chapter 6. Etiquette Regulating Josephine's Life - Royal Journeys - Tact of the Empress - Extravagance in Dress
26:07 - Chapter 30
Life of Josephine, Chapter 7. Josephine Not Allowed to Go to Poland - Fear of Divorce - The Reconciliation of 1807-1808 - The Campaign of 1809 and Its Effect on Napoleon
23:49 - Chapter 31
Life of Josephine, Chapter 8. Josephine's Unhappiness- Napoleon's View of a Divorce - The Way in Which the Divorce Was Effected
18:29 - Chapter 32
Life of Josephine, Chapter 9. After the Divorce - Josephine's Suspicions of the Emperor - Her Gradual Return to Happiness
28:28 - Chapter 33
Life of Josephine, Chapter 10 Effect on Josephine of Disasters in Russia - Anxiety During Campaign of 1813 - Flight from Paris - Death in 1814
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