Herman Théodore Chappuis’s biography of Napoleon Bonaparte presents the emperor’s extraordinary career — from Corsican obscurity through the Revolutionary wars, the Consulate, and the Empire to Waterloo and Saint Helena — in clear, accessible Dutch prose. The work traces Napoleon’s military genius, his reshaping of European legal and administrative structures, and the catastrophic overreach of the Russian campaign.
Written for a Dutch-speaking audience, the biography situates Napoleon’s impact within the broader experience of the Netherlands under French domination. Note: this text is in Dutch.