Napoleon and his empire, December 1812 -- Plots and alarms, 1812-1813 -- Russia, Austria and Napoleon, 1812-1813 -- War and diplomacy, spring 1813 -- Napoleon and Metternich -- The Congress of Prague -- From Dresden to Leipzig -- The battle of the nations -- Natural frontiers -- Challenge from within -- The Congress of Chatillon -- The beginning of the end -- Talleyrand -- An end to glory -- Epilogue : the hundred days