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THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 5
THE MODERN REGIME,
VOLUME 1 [NAPOLEON]
by Hippolyte A. Taine
Text Transcriber's Note: The numbering of Volumes, Books, Chapters
and Sections are as in the French not the American edition.
Annotations by the transcriber are initialled SR.
Svend Rom, April 2000.
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include as a prefix to the original footnote number, the book and
chapter numbers. A table of contents has been added with active
links.
David Widger, June 2008
Please note that all references to earlier Volumes of the
Origines of Contemporary France are to the American edition.
Since there are no fixed page numbers in the Gutenberg
edition these page numbers are only approximate. (SR).
Origines of Contemporary France are to the American edition.
Since there are no fixed page numbers in the Gutenberg
edition these page numbers are only approximate. (SR).
CONTENTS
PREFACE
BOOK FIRST. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS.I. Napoleon's Past and Personality.
II. The Leader and Statesman
III. His acute Understanding of Others.
IV. His Wonderful Memory.
V. His Imagination and its Excesses.CHAPTER II. HIS IDEAS, PASSIONS AND INTELLIGENCE.
I. Intense Passions.
II. Will and Egoism.
III. Napoleon's Dominant Passion: Power.
IV. His Bad Manners.
V. His Policy.
VI. Fundamental Defaults of his System.BOOK SECOND. FORMATION AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW STATE.
CHAPTER I. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENTI. The Institution of Government.
II. Default of previous government.
III. In 1799, the undertaking more difficult and the materials worse.
IV. Motives for suppressing the election of local powers.
V. Reasons for centralization.
VI. Irreconcilable divisions.
VII. Establishment of a new Dictatorship.