Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 13, written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne in the late 19th century, provides a detailed account of Napoleon's final days in power, focusing on his abdication and exile to Elba. This volume offers insights into the political dynamics and personal relationships during a critical period in European history, featuring notable figures like Marshals Ney and Macdonald. Bourrienne's firsthand perspective as Napoleon's private secretary enriches the narrative, capturing the Emperor's emotional turmoil and reflections on his military legacy leading up to his eventual return from exile.
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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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