1800: L'ultime année d'un siècle de sang

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A century of blood is coming to an end. Begun with the War of the Spanish Succession under the reign of an elderly Louis XIV, it ended with the American War of Independence and that of the first years of the Revolution. From now on, we find at the head of France, a "triumvirate." All, except Napoleon, are new men who have not soaked in the political combinations of the late Directory. Hope for a peaceful future rests on them.

In 1800, Napoleon was thirty—one. He is new to polit...