Saint-Napoleon : Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France, Hardcover by Hazareesingh, Sudhir, ISBN 0674013417, ISBN-13 9780674013414, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15—Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthday—would be celebrated as France's national day. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Hazareesingh vividly reconstructs the symbolic richness and political complexity of the Saint-Napoleon festivities.