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Clisson et Eugénie, also known in English as Clisson and Eugénie, is a romantic novella, written by Napoleon Bonaparte. [1] Napoleon wrote Clisson et Eugénie in 1795, and it is widely acknowledged as being a fictionalised account of the doomed romance of a soldier and his lover, which paralleled Bonaparte's own relationship with Eugénie Désirée Clary.
The novel depicts a young French soldier in the Napoleonic army during 1805 as he takes charge of Napoleon's personal larder. [1] The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . [ 2 ] Publication and subsequent sales of the novel allowed Winterson to stop working other jobs, and support herself as a full-time writer.
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
Napoleon employed a variation of this tactic to crush the Vendémiaire uprising. The British during the wars used something that would become known as a shrapnel shell . [ 15 ] Besides cannons, artillery was made up of howitzers and other type of guns that used ammunition that packed an explosive punch (also known as "explosive shells").
Napoleon reconciled with the Catholic Church and asked for a chaplain, saying "it would rest my soul to hear Mass". [4] The pope petitioned the British to allow this, and sent the Abbé Ange Vignali to Saint Helena. On 20 April 1821, Napoleon told General Charles Tristan, "I was born in the Catholic religion. I wish to fulfill the duties it ...
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization Of Victory; 1793-1815. Penguin. ISBN 978-0141038940. Lieven, Dominic (2010). Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace. Nafziger, George (2009). Napoleon's Invasion of Russia. Zamoyski, Adam (2004). 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow.
The Pride and the Passion is a 1957 American Napoleonic-era war film in Technicolor and VistaVision from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. The film co-stars Theodore Bikel and Jay Novello.
The Napoleonic Wars were a defining event of the early 19th century, and inspired many works of fiction, from then until the present day.. Napoleon himself wrote Clisson et Eugénie (1795), a romantic novella about a soldier and his lover, widely acknowledged as being a fictionalised account of his own relationship with Eugénie Désirée Clary.