Citizen Emperor : Napoleon in Power.

Cover -- Contents -- REGENERATION, 1799-1802 -- 1 The Invention of a Saviour -- 'Neither Excitement nor Enthusiasm' -- 'Despair of Relying on Yourselves and Rely Only on Me' -- 'Do You Want to be King?' -- 'Blood will Flow Up to your Knees' -- A Regime of 'Servitude and Silence' -- The Vessel of State Arrives in Port -- 'The End of our Suffering' -- Repression and Reconciliation -- 2 'Perfect Glory and Solid Peace' -- The Seat of Power -- The Search for Peace -- Preparations for War -- 'Like a Thunderbolt' -- 'Calm on a Fiery Horse' -- 3 Italy and the Consolidation of Power -- 'In God's Name, Return if You Can' -- 'If I Die, It Would be a Misfortune' -- The Hero Returns -- The Festival of the Concord -- 'Why am I Not Permitted to Weep?' -- 'If I am a Traitor, Become Brutus' -- 4 Peace -- 'Blood Must Flow!' -- Hohenlinden -- 'We Blessed the Name of Bonaparte' -- 'The August Pacifier of the World' -- Bonaparte's Paris -- 'No One Dares Now Talk Politics' -- 5 The Politics of Fusion -- The Return of the Emigrés -- A Vaccine against Religion -- 'The Head of Medusa Should Show Itself No More!' -- Portraying Bonaparte -- EMPIRE, 1802-1804 -- 6 The Conservative Turn -- 'The Men of the Revolution Have Nothing to Fear' -- The Imagination of the French People -- Pots of Butter and Malcontent Republicans -- 'An Aura of Fear' -- A Republic in Uniform -- 'Weeping Tears of Blood' -- 'Six Centuries of Outrage to Avenge' -- 7 The End of the Revolution -- The Plot to Kill Bonaparte -- The Kidnapping and Execution of the Duc d'Enghien -- Bonaparte Becomes Napoleon -- 'Sea of Dreams, Empire of Reality' -- A Troublesome Family -- 8 'The First Throne of the Universe' -- The Trial of General Moreau -- 'The Most Perfect of Men' -- Plebiscitary Leadership -- Trinkets and Baubles -- Boulogne -- Charlemagne, Not Caesar (or Alexander) -- 'The Restorer of the Roman Empire'.

The Thaumaturge King -- Rendering Napoleon Sacred -- A Vexed Question -- 9 Citizen Emperor -- The Coronation -- Representing the Empire -- The Distribution of the Eagles -- The People's Empire -- The Jacobin Emperor -- CONQUEST, 1805-1807 -- 10 'The Rage of Conquest and Ambition' -- King of All Italy -- The Rebirth of the Coalition -- The Army of England -- The Battle of Cadiz -- Seven Torrents Descend on Germany -- 'Fighting England in Germany' -- The 'Bloodiest [Battle] Ever Recorded' -- 'Peace is an Empty Word' -- 11 The Grand Empire -- Napoleon the Great, Napoleon the Saint -- 'He is the One God Created' -- The Bonapartes in Europe -- 'Breathing a Desire for Revenge' -- Avenging Rossbach -- A Triumphant Napoleon . . . -- . . . Encounters an Obdurate Frederick William -- Walewska -- 12 Zenith -- The Great Debacle -- 'One More Victory' -- The Partition of the World -- 'Everybody Hated the French' -- 'The Heavens Gave Birth to Bonaparte for Victory' -- The Limits of Despotism -- 13 'The Devil's Business' -- The Lion and the Lamb -- The Famine March -- A Despised Family -- 'A Pitiful Intrigue' -- 'Glorious Insurrection' -- 'A Barbarous and Inhospitable Land' -- Bailén -- CRUCIBLE, 1808-1811 -- 14 The Desolate Father -- Erfurt, the German Princes and a Russian Bear -- 'When Will the Blood Cease to Flow?' -- The Consolatory Gaze -- The Clemency of His Majesty -- 'A War of Cannibals' -- The Courtier's Mask . . . -- . . . and Napoleon's Bad Behaviour -- 15 The Tide Turns -- 'For the Love of the Fatherland' -- Eckmühl -- 'So the Man is Mad' -- The Battle of the Cannon -- Schönbrunn -- 'I am Charlemagne' -- 'Politics Has No Heart' -- 16 Bourgeois Emperor, Universal Emperor -- 'I am Marrying a Womb' -- Marie-Louise -- Ceremonial Paris -- Men are 'Insufferable' -- The King of Rome -- The Father of the People -- Towards the Universal Monarchy.

17 'A Very Stormy Year' -- Napoleon Reaches Out -- The Phantom Alliance -- 'Two Blustering Braggarts' -- The Army of the Gauls and the Twenty Nations -- The Imperial Progress -- HUBRIS, 1812 -- 18 The Second Polish War -- The Tempest Breaks -- The Tsar Dances, the Emperor Fumes -- 'Like a Ship without a Compass' -- 'The Corpse of a Dead Enemy Always Smells Good' -- Borodino -- 19 'The Struggle of Obstinacy' -- Moscow -- 'The Irresponsible Act of a Deranged Asiatic' -- 'I Want Peace, I Need Peace, I Must Have Peace!' -- 'A Cadaver of a Capital' -- Maloyaroslavets -- 'The Empire of Death' -- 20 Destiny Forsaken -- 'A Starving Multitude' -- Napoleon's Despair -- Vengeance -- The Berezina -- 'A Vast and Lugubrious Taciturnity' -- Napoleon Decamps -- In a Sleigh with the Emperor -- Aftermath -- THE ADVENTURER, 1813-1814 -- 21 'The Enemy of the Human Race' -- The Limits of Attachment -- The Germans Strike Back -- The Beast of the Apocalypse -- 'A Policy of Illusion' -- Lützen and Bautzen -- The Allies Devise a Plan -- 'Excessive Ambition and Greed' -- 22 The Deliverance of Europe -- 'A Weak, Rotten, Poorly Designed Structure' -- Dresden -- The Battle of the Nations -- Self-Destruction -- The Barbarian Invasions -- 23 The Naked Emperor -- 'I Shall Know How to Die' -- 'Everyone Has Lost their Heads' -- 'Nap the Mighty is - Gone to the Pot!!!' -- 'Napoleon is Always Napoleon' -- The Struggle for Marie-Louise -- The Long Goodbye -- 24 Sovereign of Elba -- Napoleon Returns to his Roots -- A Dead Man, in Perpetual Movement -- Wife, Lover, Sister, Mother -- The Decision -- 'The Die is Cast' -- THE SECOND COMING, 1815 -- 25 The Saviour Returns -- 'A Criminal and Impotent Delirium' -- Rumours -- Marching to Paris with their Hands in their Pockets -- From Adventurer to Prince -- The Passionate and the Afflicted -- Napoleon Impotent -- 26 A Parody of Empire.

'Venality Dressed in Ideological Garb' -- The Last Plebiscite -- The Champ de Mai -- 'Never Did I See Such a Pounding Match' -- Chaos -- 'I Have Received a Mortal Blow' -- 'I Want Nothing for Myself' -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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