Biography by Dumas the Elder about the legendary French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, translated into German by Heinrich Elsner. "Time and again, the allure of his extraordinary personality invites new attempts to follow in his giant footsteps with the pen, to uncover more or less insightfully the sources of his successes and failures, to dissect his genius and way of thinking, to depict the shocking spectacle of his comet-like rise and fall, and to present the heir and completer of the great revolution as a sower of new seeds." (Heinrich Elsner).