Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Published in the late 19th century, 'Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 15' by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne provides a detailed account of the political landscape in France following Napoleon's reign, particularly during the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815. As Napoleon's private secretary, Bourrienne offers personal insights into key figures like Fouche and the dynamics between Bonapartist and Royalist factions. The memoir captures the uncertainty of post-Napoleonic France, detailing Bourrienne's experiences and observations during this tumultuous period, including the events surrounding Napoleon's surrender and his final days at St. Helena.
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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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