Jacques Godechot
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Former Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Dean, Faculty of Letters, University of Toulouse II, France. Author of Les Révolutions, 1770–1799; Napoléon; and others.
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Napoleon I 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…
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