Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 16
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 16
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 16, written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne in the late 19th century, chronicles the final years of Napoleon's life during his exile on St. Helena from 1815 until his death in 1821. This volume provides an intimate look at Napoleon's daily routines, health, and reflections on his past, as well as his interactions with guards and attendants. It also details his journey to St. Helena aboard the Northumberland, highlighting his transition from a powerful ruler to a confined exile grappling with loss and isolation.
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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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