Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) has always been adulated and hated, and has left his mark on the history of Europe. His correspondence, surprisingly little known, reveals all the facets of this extraordinary character. In this selection of letters and speeches, the ambition of the young student of the military school, the civic enthusiasm of the general of the Revolution and the rhetoric, contagious, of the first emperor of the French make us discover the glory of the man who upset the Old Continent and the whole world.
