On Monday, March 2, Florida State University's Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution will sponsor "Napoleon Hero," a free, public talk by the distinguished French academic Professor Patrice Gueniffey, director of the Centre Raymond Aron at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, a leading French institution for research and higher education.

"Napoleon Hero" is based on Gueniffey's new biography of Napoleon, which has already sold more than 30,000 copies in France in less than a year and is on the point of appearing in English translation with Harvard.

Patrice Gueniffey

Published by Gallimard, "Bonaparte (1769-1802)" is the first volume of a two-part series. The first volume chronicles the personal, military and scientific journey of the great man, from his birth to the first two years of the Consulate after which Bonaparte definitely becomes the "monarch of the Republic."

Gueniffey's talk will take place:

MONDAY, MARCH 2

5:30 – 7:30  P.M.

FSU CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT, MAIN AUDITORIUM

111 S. WOODWARD AVE.

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

For more information, contact Professor Rafe Blaufarb, director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, at (850) 644-5888 or rblaufarb@fsu.edu.