Napoleon the Third: A Biography

by Edmund B. D'Auvergne

Overview

In this brief and readable study, noted biographer Edmund d’Auvergne recounts the life and times of Napoleon III and the times that reigned across Europe. An arch political schemer he capitalised on the ferment in French society that carried on even after the fall of his uncle, the Emperor Napoleon, to gain the summit of his power. However, his actions in power were frequently moderate in nature toward his French subjects, but his attempts to increase the power of France in Europe would ultimately be met by the crushing brilliance of a resurgent Prussia under Bismarck.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787205499
Publisher:	Borodino Books
Publication date:	06/28/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	759,080
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Edmund Basil D’Auvergne (c. 1876-1968) was a Scottish-born English writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

He was born in Glasgow around 1876 and later lived in London. He is the author of a number of history books, including An ABC Guide to the Great War (1918), The Prodigious Marshal: Being the Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Maurice De Saxe, Marshal of France, Son of the King of Poland, Conqueror of the English, Pretender to the Dukedom of Kurland, and Universal Lover (1931) and John, King of England: A Modern History (1934). He also wrote a novel, The Beloved Adventuress: A Novel (1930).

D’Auvergne died in Midhurst, Sussex in 1968.