Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01
1885
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
1885
Published in 1885, 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 01' is a historical account by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, who served as Napoleon's private secretary. The memoirs provide a personal perspective on Napoleon's early life, education, and formative experiences that influenced his rise to power. Bourrienne shares intimate details about Napoleon's childhood, character traits, and relationships, while also recounting significant historical events, including the Hundred Days and Napoleon's eventual surrender. This work is notable for its firsthand insights into one of history's most influential figures.
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“and we should have seen perish on the scaffold, at the age of twenty-five, the man who, during the twenty-five succeeding years, was destined to astonish the world by his vast conceptions, his gigantic projects, his great military genius, his extraordinary good fortune, his faults, reverses, and final misfortunes.””
— Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
“In his first Italian campaign he wrote thus to General Clarke: "That ambition and the occupation of high offices were not sufficient for his satisfaction and happiness, which he had early placed in the opinion of Europe and the esteem of posterity." He often observed to me that with him the opinion of posterity was the real immortality of the soul. It””
— Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
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