Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The aspiring self in France from the old regime to the new
  • Genius, Madame de Staël, and the soul of prodigious success
  • Vocation, Stendhal, and the art of living ethically
  • Destiny, cuvier, and post-revolutionary politics
  • Friendship matters; arguments from Egypt; coda on Napoleon
  • Ambition in post-revolutionary lives.