"It fell to the liberal statesman, academician, and historian Adolphe Thiers to forge this broader synthesis in his Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire (1845–1862). Begun under the July Monarchy, continued under the Republic, and concluded under the Second Empire, this 20-volume work sold more than a million copies, and established Thiers' reputation as France's "national historian" (as well as his fortune). The author was supremely well placed to produce such a work. From his early years at school in Marseilles he had been fascinated by Napoleon, and like many men of his generation his obsession with the Emperor continued well into his adult life. Bringing back Napoleon's remains for burial in Paris had been his idea, although he was out of office by the time the cendres were returned to Paris."
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Sudhir Hazareesingh, 'Napoleonic Memory in Nineteenth-Century France: The Making of a Liberal Legend', MLN, Vol. 120, No. 4, French Issue (September 2005), p. 765
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Adolphe Thiers
1797 – 1877
französischer Politiker und Historiker
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