Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 10
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 10
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Volume 10 of 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte' by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, published in the late 19th century, covers the years 1807 to 1809, detailing significant military and diplomatic events during Napoleon's reign. As Napoleon's private secretary, Bourrienne provides a unique perspective on the political dynamics of Europe, including the Treaty of Tilsit and the establishment of new states like Westphalia and the Grand Duchy of Warsaw. This volume also addresses the tensions between military and diplomatic authorities, offering insights into the complexities of governance in a transformative era.
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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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