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81) I, Crocodile
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Nile crocodile is brought back to Paris by the Emperor Napoleon, it must not only struggle to get enough to eat, but escape from being eaten, too!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 403 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator.
87) Napoleon & love
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (468 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
British drama depicting the many women in Napoleon Bonaparte's love life, starring Ian Holm as Napoleon and Billie Whitelaw as Josephine.
89) Leopard in exile
Author
Series
Carolus rex volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she has known and loved is gone and it's fallen on her to save her family from the guillotine. A chance encounter with Napoleon Bonaparte, the ambitious and charismatic young military prodigy, provides her answer. But her fortunes shift once again when she meets Napoleon's confidant and star general, the indomitable Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the winter of 1803, one woman stands between Napoleon and the fall of Great Britain. The free-spirited daughter of an English baronet, Lisbeth defies convention by eloping to France. When her husband abandons her, she must find a way to survive and be reunited with her young son, who is in the care of her mother-in-law. A seasoned spy known as Tidewatcher, Duncan apprenticed under Lisbeth's father and pledged to keep his mentor's pretty daughter...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Library edition.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A basic discussion about the history of the Louisiana Purchase, and how the United States expanded their lands by buying the Louisiana Territory from France"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
585 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written with great energy and authority--and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself--the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror. All previous lives of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first life of Napoleon, in any language, that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence compiled by the Napoléon...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but who also had a promising political career of his own. He was a romantic, an idealist, and an anti-monarchist whose love for Alexandrine, the woman he married in spite of Napoleon's objections, caused him to fall out of favor with his powerful brother. Here, authors Simonetta and Arikha draw from a massive trove of first-hand...
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