A virtual lecture presented by Alex Clemente through a collaboration of the libraries of the MAIN Library Alliance. Part 1 of a two-part series on Napoleon. Registration is required to get Zoom link.
How was it possible for a son of a minor noble family from Corsica to become the Emperor of the French? This lecture aims to explain the rise of one of the most famous figures in Western, if not, World Civilization. Napoleon’s intellectual, civic, governmental, and military achievements will be weighed in the context of the movement that birthed him – The French Revolution.
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