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Résumé :
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A timely study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries. Sudhir Hazareesingh accounts for the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and tells how it developped into a potent political culture, laying the ground for the emergence of the modern French state and the European Union. He also examines the amazing tenacity of popular affection in France for the Emperor, manifested in countless busts and portraits in ordinary citizen?s homes, grass-roots political activism, miraculous apparitions reported after hhis death, and the memories kept alive by thousands of imperial war veterans.
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