Download or read book Bonaparte and the Consulate (Classic Reprint) written by Antoine-Claire Thibaudeau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bonaparte and the Consulate Perhaps I could not better introduce these Memoirs to the English reader than by recalling the saying of a friend: III were marooned on a desert island, and allowed only one class of books, I Should choose a box of French Memoirs. With this sentiment I most cordially agree, with this proviso, that my box Of Memoirs Should relate to the Revolution, the Consulate, and the Empire. From this box, which would be a large one, there are few books which I should draw upon with more frequency than the Memoirs of Thibaudeau. For all that concerns the Civil genius of Bonaparte in his best period, I know of no book so useful and so interesting. It gives us the most exact and fullest reports extant of the words used by Bonaparte as First Consul, during the debates in the Council of State, and in familiar conversations. These reports form, of course, the main interest Of the book, but in addition it throws more light than is to be found elsewhere upon Bonaparte's methods in working out his vast schemes for the regeneration of France, and upon the relations which existed between him and the Men of the Revolution with whom he worked. To understand either the position of the First Consul or of his adherents, it is absolutely necessary to have in one's mind at least an outline of the period which preceded the Consulate, a period perhaps less studied and less understood than any other epoch in the history of the Revolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.