THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

BY

WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE

Ph.D., L.H.D., LL.D.
Professor of History in Columbia University

Revised and Enlarged
WITH PORTRAITS

VOLUME II

New York
THE CENTURY CO.
1916

Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910
BY
THE CENTURY CO.
Published October, 1910

CONTENTS

• CHAPTER PAGE

• Rescue of the Directory 1
• The Treaty of Campo Formio 15
• Bonaparte and Talleyrand 26
• Commotions in European Politics 36
• The Expedition To Egypt 46
• The Landing in Egypt 55
• The Disaster at Acre 65
• Aboukir and the Great Desertion 77
• "The Return of the Hero" 86
• Bonaparte Seizes His Opportunity 100
• The Overthrow of the Directory 111
• Bonaparte the First Consul 121
• Bonaparte Embodies the Revolution 136
• A Constitutional Despotism 149
• Statesmanship and Strategy 162
• Marengo 174
• The Peace of Lunéville 190
• The Pacification of Europe 203
• The Reorganization of France 213
• The Code and the University 221
• Steps Toward Monarchy 229
• The Life Consulate 239
• The Threshold of Monarchy 250
• Expansion of the Revolutionary System 261
• Tension Between England and France 275
• France and England in Arms 286
• Warnings To Royalists and Republicans 295
• Declaration of the Empire 314
• The Descent Into England 325
• The Coronation of Napoleon I