# Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

Author: Alger, John Goldworth, 1836-1907

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70408

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## Summary

The French Revolution, of which--philosophers regarding it as still unfinished--this book is really a chapter, produced a greater dislocation of individuals and classes than had been known in modern times. It scattered thousands of Frenchmen over Europe, some in fact as far as America and India, while, on the other hand, it attracted men of all nationalities to France. It was mainly a centrifugal, but it was partly a centripetal force, especially during the Empire; never before or since was France so much as then the focus of political and social life. Men of all ranks shared in both these movements. If princes and nobles were driven from France there were some who were attracted thither...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/napoleon-s-british-visitors-and-captives-1801-1815-70408/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/napoleon-s-british-visitors-and-captives-1801-1815-70408/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/napoleon-s-british-visitors-and-captives-1801-1815-70408/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/napoleon-s-british-visitors-and-captives-1801-1815-70408/chapters/2/index.md)