Of the periods into which one may divide the Napoleonic era, the most unified is the reconstruction which followed the restoration of peace after the War of the Second Coalition. In these four years after the Treaty of Luneville, Napoleon found himself in a situation vastly more favorable to the realization of traditional French claims than that of any of his predecessors. His policy underwent an evolution, motivated by his deliberate plan for the conquest of England by invasion and leading up to his dynastic ambitions. Professor Deutsch’s work, the first intensive study in English of the foreign policy of the early Napoleonic period, is based upon a thorough study of hitherto neglected material in the French and Austrian archives.