Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 06
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 06
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Published in the late 19th century, 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 06' by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne offers a detailed account of Napoleon's life from the perspective of his private secretary. This volume covers significant political maneuvers, military campaigns, and the establishment of the Legion of Honour, while also providing insights into Napoleon's character and leadership style. Bourrienne critiques the inaccuracies of official bulletins from Napoleon's regime and recounts pivotal moments, including Napoleon's surrender and his final years at St. Helena, highlighting the complexities of loyalty and ambition during a transformative period in European history.
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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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