A Life of Napoleon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Life of Napoleon, credited to Ida M. Tarbell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Life of Napoleon by Ida M. Tarbell. Read in English by Ciufi Galeazzi. Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act. She was also an acclaimed biographer, known for her extensive works on the lives of Lincoln and Napoleon. Her research is exhaustive, and her prose is brisk and engaging. This biography finishes with an 115 page "sketch" of the Empress Josephine. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Life of Napoleon
• Author credits: Ida M. Tarbell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 11:36:03

Catalogue topics

• Napoleon
• Josephine
• european history

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Chapter I. Napoleon's Youth and Early Surroundings - His School Days at Brienne — 15:57
2. 02 - Chapter II. Napoleon in Paris - Lieutenant of Artillery - Literary Work - Napoleon and the Revolution — 27:08
3. 03 - Chapter III. Napoleon and Robespierre - Out of Work - General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior — 15:50
4. 04 - Chapter IV. Napoleon's Courtship and Marriage - His Devotion to Josephine — 13:47
5. 05 - Chapter V. The First Italian Campaign - Napoleon's Way of Making War — 51:14
6. 06 - Chapter VI. Napoleon's Return to Paris - The Egyptian Campaign - The 18th Brumaire — 22:37
7. 07 - Chapter VII. Statesman and Lawgiver- The Finances- The Industries- The Public Works — 19:38
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. Return of the Émigrés.—The Concordat.—Legion of Honor.—Code Napoleon — 23:02
9. 09 - Chapter IX. Opposition to the Centralization of the Government - Prosperity of France — 13:30
10. 10 - Chapter X. Preparation for War with England - Flotilla at Boulogne - Sale of Louisiana — 11:37
11. 11 - Chapter XI. Emperor of the French People - King of Italy — 21:46
12. 12 - Chapter XII. Campaigns of 1805, 1806,1807 - Peace of Tilsit — 24:44
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. Extension of Napoleon's Empire - Family Affairs — 16:38
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. The Berlin Decree-War in the Peninsula- The Bonapartes on the Spanish Throne — 12:58
15. 15 - Chapter XV. Disasters in Spain - Erfurt Meeting - Napoleon at Madrid — 15:56
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. Talleyrand's Treachery - Campaign of 1809 — 13:01
17. 17 - Chapter XXVII. The Divorce - A New Wife - An Heir to the Crown — 11:47
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. Trouble with the Pope - The Conscription - Evasions of the Blockade - The Tilsit Agreement Broken — 11:34
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. Russian Campaign - Burning of Moscow - A New Army — 16:10
20. 20 - Chapter XX. Campaign of 1813 - Campaign of 1814 - Abdication — 18:50
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. Ruler of the Island of Elba - Return to Paris - The Hundred Days - The Second Abdication — 16:42
22. 22 - Chapter XXII. Napoleon's Surrender to England - Sent to St. Helena - Life in Exile - Death of Napoleon — 19:07
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII. The Second Funeral of Napoleon - Removal of Napoleon's Remains from St. Helena to the Banks of the Seine in 1840 — 44:11
24. 24 - Life of Josephine, Chapter I Family - Early Surroundings - Eugene di Beauharnais - Marriage - Separation from her Husband — 17:50

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