Complete and unabridged, with 48 full-page plates by Étienne Bouhot, Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld and Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot. The son of an executed royalist becomes a soldier of the Republic and follows the eagles from the Rhine to Egypt. Lever wrote a run of Napoleonic novels and this is the most tightly plotted of them. This edition is bound with 48 plates after George Wallis, James Gillray and Francis Swaine, among others, and includes 12 illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.