Louis Geoffroy
Louis Geoffroy ( November 5, 1803 , † July 11, 1858 ) was a French judge and writer, who in 1836 with the book Napoléon et la conquête du monde. 1812 à 1832. Histoire de la monarchie universelle wrote one of the first works of counterfactual historiography . His full name was Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy-Château . Geoffroy was an adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte , his biological father had died in the battle of Austerlitz .
"Napoléon et la conquête du monde" ( Napoleon and the conquest of the world )
In his counterfactual narrative, which is also called Napoleon Apocryphe in later editions , Geoffroy had Napoleon's army victoriously march beyond Moscow to St. Peterburg in 1812 , defeat the Russian army and take Tsar Alexander I prisoner and then occupy Sweden . After Napoleon restored the Kingdom of Poland and then conquered Spain, his troops invaded England , destroying the English army at the Battle of Cambridge . England is divided partly into France and into 22 departments. In 1817 he wiped Prussia off the map and in 1821 he defeated a large Muslim armed force in Palestine . He destroyed all mosques in the city and brought the black stone from the ruins of the Dome of the Rock to Paris.
Soon after, Napoleon conquered Asia including China and Japan , where he destroyed all the shrines of other religions, and enforced hegemony over Africa . In 1827, at a congress in Panama, all North and South American heads of state asked him to take America under control. In his inaugural speech as world ruler, Napoleon proclaims that the universal monarchy will be inherited by his family and that from now on there will only be one nation on the globe until the end of time. The Pope gives him the title “Your omnipotence”.
According to Richard J. Evans, the book has lost none of its fascination and attraction for two centuries and has been reprinted several times, "so that the French would not forget how it could have happened".
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard J. Evans : Altered pasts. About counterfactual narration in history. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04650-5 , p. 24.
- ↑ The table of contents is based on: Richard J. Evans: Altered Pasts. About counterfactual narration in history. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 2014, pp. 21–23.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geoffroy, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Geoffroy-Château, Louis-Napoléon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1803 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1858 |