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JOHN BIERMAN Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire
London England, John Murray, 1989. 1st Uk Edition, Binding: Cloth & Boards, Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0719546389 Harback Hardback. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most colourful yet enigmatic monarchs of the nineteenth century. Bohemina, adventurer, and compulsive womaniser, he managed, to the astonishment of virtually everyone, to be elected President of france in 1848 and within three years staged the coup d'etat that made him Emporer. Presided over by this calculating roue and his beautiful Empress Eugenie, the Second Empire was perhaps the most glittering and frenetic epoch in French history. Napoleon III was the arbiter of Europe and led his country into four major wars. In many ways too, his regime marks the beginning of modern politics. His techniques anticipated the facist dictactors of the 1920s and 30s. At the same time, in virtually inventing politics-as-theatre- the campaign tour, the media event, the calculated leak - he foreshadowed modern-day democratic politicians. Illustrated. 439 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .
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