The Life of Napoleon I, in Two Volumes: Including New Materials from the British Official Records

xvii, 471; viii, 547 pp. Two volume set. Green boards with gilt titles, top edge gilt. Black-and-white frontispieces and plates. Napoleon I (born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island) was a French general, first consul (1799–1804), and emperor of the French (1804–1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West. He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy.