LOUIS NAPOLEON is neither so bad nor so able as is currently supposed. "It is his fate," said one who knew him well, "to be always misconceived. People used to think him a cretin, and now they ...

(adoc-photos/Corbis) Napoleon completes the two-year artillery program at the École Militaire in one year; is commissioned a second lieutenant at age 16. (adoc-photos/Corbis) King Louis XVI is ...

In The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon, Christy Pichichero “aims to bring war and military thought to their proper place in our understanding of ...