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“I am of the race of the Caesars, and of the best of their kind, the founders.” -- Napoleon Bonaparte. THE CAESAR OF PARIS: NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, ROME, AND THE ARTISTIC OBSESSION THAT SHAPED AN EMPIRE. In The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques exposes a little known facet of Napoleon’s extraordinary reign – his obsession with antiquity.  An engaging blend of biography, art and cultural history, The Caesar of Paris looks at Napoleon’s life through the prism of art and his fascination with Rome, ancient and present. Napoleon sought legitimacy by as*ociating himself with antiquity’s greatest commanders and his reign with the civilizations of clas*ical antiquity.  As his dynastic ambitions grew, Napoleon appropriated the symbols and icons of imperial Rome — everything from his hairstyle and the imperial eagle to clas*ical treasures and triumphal monuments for his own imperial capital, Paris. 32 pages of illustrations, a visual feast linking Napoleonic Paris and Rome. SUSAN JAQUES is the author of The Caesar of Paris and The Empress of Art. She graduated from Stanford University with a major in History and earned a MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. A member of the Napoleonic Historical Society and Historians of Eighte*nth-Century Art & Architecture, Susan lives in Los Angeles where she's a gallery docent at the J. Paul Getty Museum. “Jaques sweeps through the artistic history of Napoleonic Europe with the verve, enthusiasm and exuberance the subject deserves. She brings to it her de*p erudition, together with the sense of wonder—sometimes awe-struck, sometimes appalled—that Napoleon’s vast, often vainglorious cultural ambitions require. Jaques adds to this a profound grasp of the Roman influences on the age. Simply Powered by WordPress, Created & Maintained by Bakerview Consulting