Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte: To which are Added an Account of the Important Events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon's Surrender to the English, and of His Residence and Death at St. Helena, with Anecdotes and Illustrative Extracts from All the Most Authentic Sources, Tom 1Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889 - 422 |
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... interest , excitement , and amusement , can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numer- ous and excellent memoirs for which the literature of France is so justly celebrated . M. de Bourrienne shows us the hero of Marengo and Aus ...
... interest , excitement , and amusement , can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numer- ous and excellent memoirs for which the literature of France is so justly celebrated . M. de Bourrienne shows us the hero of Marengo and Aus ...
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... interest for every one . But they also require to be read with great caution . When we meet with praise of Napoleon , we may generally believe it , for , as Thiers ( Consulat , ii . 279 ) says , Bourrienne need be little suspected on ...
... interest for every one . But they also require to be read with great caution . When we meet with praise of Napoleon , we may generally believe it , for , as Thiers ( Consulat , ii . 279 ) says , Bourrienne need be little suspected on ...
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... interest of the work and the great influence given by his post , Bour- rienne stuck to his place , and to all appearance might , except for himself , have come down to us as the companion of Na- poleon during his whole life . He had ...
... interest of the work and the great influence given by his post , Bour- rienne stuck to his place , and to all appearance might , except for himself , have come down to us as the companion of Na- poleon during his whole life . He had ...
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... interest so long as they treat of what the author has seen and heard ; but when he speaks of others , his work is only an as- semblage of gratuitous suppositions and of false facts put for- ward for special purposes . " The Comte ...
... interest so long as they treat of what the author has seen and heard ; but when he speaks of others , his work is only an as- semblage of gratuitous suppositions and of false facts put for- ward for special purposes . " The Comte ...
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... interest of such an event , as it gradually wears away the most durable monuments . I attach only a relative importance to what I am about to lay before the public . I shall give authentic docu- ments . If all persons who have ...
... interest of such an event , as it gradually wears away the most durable monuments . I attach only a relative importance to what I am about to lay before the public . I shall give authentic docu- ments . If all persons who have ...
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Tom 4 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne,R. W. Phipps Podgląd niedostępny - 2008 |
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Strona 300 - King the two letters which you have transmitted to me j and his Majesty, seeing no reason to depart from those forms which have long been established in Europe for transacting business with foreign states, has commanded me to return, in his name, the official answer which I send you herewith enclosed.
Strona 310 - The same prudence and good sense mark all his behavior. His instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. " During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate ; with that there is no hurry. But when you bring bad news, rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
Strona 415 - We may ensure the glory of France. I say we, because I require the aid of Bonaparte, and he can do nothing without me. General, Europe observes you. Glory awaits you, and I am impatient to restore peace to my people.
Strona 315 - Hungarian grenadiers, before the very eyes of the Austrian cavalry. This cavalry was half a league off and required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action, and I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
Strona 7 - ... body — a defect common to the Bonaparte family. When Napoleon grew up, the peculiar charm of his countenance lay in his eye, especially in the mild expression it assumed in his moments of kindness. His anger, to be sure, was frightful, and though I am no coward, I never could look at him in his fits of rage without shuddering. Though his smile was captivating, yet the expression of his mouth when disdainful or angry could scarcely be seen without terror. But that forehead, which seemed formed...
Strona 279 - France, any but those who rally round me. As for those who remain in the Orangery, let force expel them. They are not the representatives of the people, but the representatives of the poniard.
Strona 247 - Bonaparte family, who were desirous that Napoleon should obtain a divorce. The elder M. de Caulaincourt stated to us his apprehensions on this point; but whenever the subject was introduced my mother changed the conversation, because, knowing as she did the sentiments of the Bonaparte family, she could not reply without either committing them or having recourse to falsehood. She knew, moreover, the truth of many circumstances which M. de Caulaincourt seemed to doubt, and which her situation with...
Strona 5 - we may divide ourselves into platoons, form a siege, and I will undertake to direct the attacks." The proposal, which was received with enthusiasm, was immediately put into execution. This little sham war was carried on for the space of a fortnight, and did not cease until a quantity of gravel and small stones having got mixed with the snow of which we made our bullets, many of the combatants, besiegers as well as besieged, were seriously wounded. I well remember that I was a considerable sufferer...
Strona 3 - None but those who were acquainted with the Bonaparte family can form any idea of the enormity of this offence. To eat fruit belonging to the uncle the Canon was infinitely more criminal than to eat grapes and figs which might be claimed by anybody else. An inquiry took place. Napoleon. denied the fact, and was whipped. He was told that if he would beg pardon he should be forgiven.
Strona 411 - Bonaparte in 1814 will be fonnd: in the third volume of this work, and, like the note of his submission mentioned above, betrays manifest traces of the disagreeable nature of the task. We may, at the risk of irrelevance, perhaps quote a contrary instance in the case of one of Bonaparte's biographers : — Mr. Buskin was on one occasion showing to a friend the original manuscripts of several of Scott's novels. "I think," he said, taking down one of them, "that the most precious of all is this.