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Article: Baguley, David. Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2000. Pp. xxii + 425. ISBN 0-8071-2664-1
Anyone interested in learning about Napoleon III and the Second Empire will want to read David Baguley's literary extravaganza, a feast of wit and erudition as well as a wandering--the etymological meaning of the word, as Baguley explains in the concluding chapter of his book--through the vicissitudes of the period and the various genres deployed to represent it. Blending generous portions of history, biography and literary study in this interpretation of interpretations, he offers up a rich analysis of the representations of Napoleon iii and his regime in a "variety of media and forms, ...