... interpretation of Napoleon was shaped by the issues and concerns of the nations era. After examining the French historians, an assessment of a non-French historian Pieter Geyl will be evaluated. An examination of Pieter Geyl will largely be based on how his portrait of Napoleon was affected by his social and political context. Finally, it will draw on the assessment of Geyl and the French historians to conclude that the portrait of Napoleon was inevitably colored by the political-social climate of their country. Sources used in this will be predominantly secondary, with 2 primary sources. Each of these sources will be used extensively to show directly how each period the historian wrote in was colored by the event and issues of its time. Napoleon Bonaparte's meteoric rise from a general in the revolutionary army to Emperor of the French and his equally precipitous fall to exile on St. ...

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