Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I-VI (1896) By William  Milligan Sloane
 
Four-volume set of the life of Napoleon, printed in 1896.
 
Probably the finest book about Napoleon ever produced in English. Written by Princeton Professor William Milligan Sloane
 
Sloane’s Life of Napoleon Bonaparte was first published in the form of a serial in the Century Magazine, beginning in November of 1894. Sloan then elaborated and enlarged the series into a massive four volume set, published in 1896. This is the version we present here. 
 
Sloane offers a detailed four volume biography of the French military leader and Emperor. Bonaparte rose to prominence during the French Revolution and became the emperor of France in 1804 after the fall of the French monarchy in 1793. This mammoth biography details his life, both personal and professional, from his youth in the La Fere regiment, to his rise to Emperor, to his death in exile. The biography also looks at his marriage and divorce to Josephine, and marriage to Marie Louise, the great niece of the former Queen of France Marie Antoinette. 
 
Sloan spent many years researching Napoleon, in the libraries of this country, of Paris, and of London, and visited the scenes of the hero’s military activity. At the close of the books there is a short account of the papers of Bonaparte's boyhood and youth and portions of the French and English archives which were put at his disposal, together with a short though reasonably complete bibliography of the published books and papers of scientific value.
 
The project was very well received among other historians and editors in its day. “[Sloan] carries the reader in narrative over the now well-trodden path from Corsica to St. Helena, with a scholar’s precision as well as a lively interest, and in a way to dissolve the illusions and establish the facts of the Napoleonic period. In accomplishing this purpose, Professor Sloane has had the great advantage of adding to his abilities as a historian the invaluable factor of an impartial mind. He has drawn the most prominent figure of the French revolutionary times with an American perspective, entirely free from the prejudices and passions that still survive in Europe. For English readers this is the most important book yet written about Napoleon.” (C.D. Warner, et al, 1917). 
 
William Milligan Sloane, PHD, LHD, LLD, (1850-1928) was a professor of Latin and History at Princeton University, edited the Princeton Review, and later became the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 1911 president of the American Historical Association. editor of both the Political Science Quarterly and the American Historical Review.  Sloane was also founder and chairman of the United States Olympic Committee and escorted the first American Olympic team to the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. William Sloane wrote two other books about French history, including The French War and the Revolution (1893) and The French Revolution and Religious Reform (1901). 
 
Large Books and Heavy Set over 10kg.
 
Hard Cover
In Fair to Good Condition