The Soldier Kings of France

Napoleon Bonaparte led the governing Directorys army against the rioting royalists in Paris, crushing their campaign and beginning his rise to supremacy and greatness. He is one of the eight sovereigns discussed in "The Soldier Kings of France," who brought glory, power, and territorial expansion to France, while altering the course of European history.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of the governing Directory's army, faced the rioting royalists in Paris in early October 1795, crushing their campaign and beginning his ascent to supremacy and greatness. Napoleon is one of the eight sovereigns discussed in "The Soldier Kings of France," who brought glory, power, and territorial expansion to France, while altering the course of European history. The work begins in the ninth century with King Charles II's seizure of the French crown and concludes in the nineteenth century with Napoleon's rise and fall. In the book, the reign of Philip II and his participation in the Third Crusade to the Holy Land is the second monarch reviewed, followed by Louis XI, who ended the Hundred Year War with the English and Louis XII's rule is next, which fought to expand French territorial holdings into the Lombardy region of Italy. The fifth king surveyed is Francis I and his enlargement of French lands into Italy, while the sixth king is Henry IV, whose conversion to the Catholic faith ended thirty years of French religious wars and established a stable and popular regime. The kingship of Louis XIV is the book's seventh overlord, whose rule was occupied with wars to expand his territories and the building of France into the center of European culture, arts, architecture, and music during the Baroque era, while presiding over a magnificent court at the Versailles Palace. The final sovereign lord discussed is Napoleon Bonaparte, who led his armies to victory, establishing French dominance across Europe until his defeats at Leipzig and Waterloo and his forced exile to the remote and desolate island of Elba in the south Atlantic Ocean.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399047067