Records, 1781-1833.

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Records, 1781-1833.

Correspondence, documents, articles. This article discuesses the Napoleon's personal library, and his methods of using librarians and library services. For example, he had Barbier develop a kind of portable library that could accompany him on his travels, as well as a courier service that would bring new titles to him wherever he was in the world, and Napoleon added the books of the newly conquered to his collection.

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