Clisson and Eugénie

by Napoleon Bonaparte

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Pub Date 1 Oct 2009 | Archive Date 22 Mar 2016

Description

Their eyes met... and they soon knew that their hearts were made for each other. Triumphant on the field of battle, Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries and Eugénie, but how long will their love survive? The tragic story of Clisson and Eugénie reveals one of history s great leaders to also be an accomplished writer of fiction. Written in an eloquently Romantic style true to its period, the story offers the reader a fascinating insight into how the young Napoleon viewed love, women and military life.

Their eyes met... and they soon knew that their hearts were made for each other. Triumphant on the field of battle, Clisson turns his back on worldly success. He falls in love and marries and...

Advance Praise

There is a wit and power about the writing and the characterisation that makes the reader regret that Napoleon Bonaparte did not write more fiction --The Times

Available Editions

EDITION	Paperback
ISBN	9781906040277
PRICE	£7.99 (GBP)

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Roman C, Reviewer

This is a very short (20 pages) novella in a Romantic style: what gives it its interest is the fact that it was written by Napoleon.

As a literary work it's overwhelmingly 'told' with great gaps and swooning emotions and barely any dialogue. It's in the tradition of Goethe's Werther, with a similar melancholy obsession with love and death.

The publishers have surrounded the tale with commentary and speculation, though the main thrust is that we should read this for the insights it gives into Napoleon's personality, a literature as oblique autobiography stance to which I don't subscribe. Instead I would suggest this marks the extent to which Romanticism shaped literary endeavours in the period and offers an insight into Napoleon 's engagement with literary culture.

However we read it, it's an interesting curiosity - thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.