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Article: Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. Isser Woloch. W. W. Norton. [pound]22.50. 281 pages ISBN 0-393-05009-2. Professor Woloch, who teaches in Columbia University, has already established himself as an authority on French revolutionary history with The New Regime. In this book the author puts Napoleon -- 'this remarkable individual' -- into context to explain Napoleon's rise to power as head of the French state. Those men who helped Napoleon to destroy the Directory and who were in turn ousted by him -- de la Meurthe, Berlier, Thibaudeau, d'Angely and Cambaceres -- were always part of his political equation. This book, ...
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