Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 14, authored by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, details the events of 1815, a critical year in Napoleon's life. Written in the late 19th century, this volume focuses on Napoleon's return from exile and his brief attempt to reclaim power in France, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo. Bourrienne, as Napoleon's private secretary, provides unique insights into the political maneuvers and personal anecdotes surrounding this tumultuous period, including significant battles and Napoleon's eventual surrender to the British. The memoir is notable for its firsthand perspective on a pivotal moment 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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