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21
. April 24, Napoleon to Josephine, Bonazzi,
Lettres d’amour,
70.
22
. Masson,
Napoleon Inconnu: Papiers Inédités,
203.
23
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
I, 131.
24
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 150.
25
. Queen Hortense,
Mémoires,
I, 65.
26
. De Staël,
Des Circonstances actuelles qui peuvent terminer la Révolution et des principles qui doivent fonder la République en France,
122. Emmanuel de Las Cases,
Mémorial se Sainte Hélène, 1823–1824,
II 195.
27
. Michel Poniatowski,
Talleyrand et le Directoire,
89.
28
. Bertrand,
Cahiers,
I, Janvier-Mai, 1829, 98.
9.
“I Am So Distressed at Being Separated from Him”
1
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 565.
2
. Lucien Bonaparte,
Mémoires,
II, 342.
3
. McLynn,
Napoleon,
153.
4
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 343.
5
. Ibid., I, 87.
6
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
87.
7
. Masson,
Josephine,
124.
8
. Bertrand,
Cahiers,
II, 67.
9
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
I, 247.
10
. L. Hastier,
Le Grand amour de Joséphine
(Paris, 1955), 152–54.
11
. Ibid., 153.
12
. March 17, 1798, Josephine to Hippolyte Charles,
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
60.
13
. Ibid., 60.
14
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
II, 67.
15
.
L’Orient
should have carried a thousand men, but it was crammed, which made for poor conditions.
16
. Masson,
Josephine,
128.
17
. Adrien Grosjean,
Nouvel essai sur les eaux minérales de Plombières
(Paris, 1803), 7.
18
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
66–67.
19
. Masson,
Josephine,
131.
20
. Ibid., 130.
21
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
70–71.
22
. Masson,
Josephine,
137–38.
23
. Ibid., 142–43.
24
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 241.
25
. Ibid., I, 322.
26
. Bourrienne souped up his memoirs after the event and, like most memoirists, inserted himself more, so there is a possibility he might not have been there. But his picture of Bonaparte is correct: He was devastated.
27
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 322.
28
. Morand,
Lettres sur l’expedition de Egypte,
September 19, 1798, 171–72.
29
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 200.
30
. British Museum, Add MSS, 23003. Also, see
Mémoires et Correspondance du Roi Joseph,
ed. Du Casse, I, 189.
31
. Masson,
Josephine,
139–40.
32
. Desvernois,
Mémoires,
134.
33
. Napoleon,
Correspondance,
XXIX, 457.
34
. Williams,
England’s Mistress,
232.
35
. British Museum, Add MSS, 23003.
36
.
Morning Chronicle,
November 24, 1798.
10.
“All I Have Suffered”
1
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
I, 65.
2
. Hubert,
Malmaison,
14.
3
. Ibid.
4
. Ibid.
5
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 115, March 2, 1799, 82.
6
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 116, March 17, 1799, 82.
7
. Hubert,
Malmaison,
14.
8
. Impératrice Joséphine,
Mémoires et Correspondance de l’Impératrice Joséphine
(Paris, 1820), 154–55.
9
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 126, June 24, 1799, 87.
10
. February 1799,
Impératrice Josephine, Correspondance,
81.
11
. Gavoty,
Les Amoureux,
June 23, 279.
12
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
II, 296.
13
. Bertrand,
Cahiers,
I, 234.
14
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 300.
15
. They were from June, the most recent they had.
16
. When she found out the truth, she took Junot as a lover and then General Kléber, who was infuriated to be left in charge of the Army of the Orient by a commander who had failed even to consult him or take his leave.
17
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 131, September 30, 1799, 89.
18
.
Les Beauharnais et L’Empereur. Lettres de l’Impératrice Joséphine et de la Reine Hortense au Prince Eugène
(Paris, 1936), 125–26.
19
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance
, 56.
11.
“He Owes Me Everything”
1
. D’Abrantès,
Mémoires,
1, 265.
2
. Maurice Lescure,
Madame Hamelin,
54.
3
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
II, 5.
4
. Ibid., II, 7.
5
. Ibid., II, 120.
6
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 344. Bourrienne’s words were probably exaggerated, but this was the type of melodrama that Napoleon liked.
7
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
II, 10.
8
. D’Abrantès,
Mémoires,
II, 92.
9
. July 18, Napoleon to Josephine, Bonazzi,
Lettres d’amour,
105.
10
. April 24, Napoleon to Josephine, Bonazzi,
Lettres d’amour,
166.
11
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
II, 102.
12
. D’Abrantès,
Mémoires,
1, 265.
13
. Gohier,
Mémoires,
II, 2.
14
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 199.
15
. Ibid., I, 250.
16
. Ibid., I, 252.
17
. Lever,
de Sade,
514.
18
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 155.
19
. Ibid., I, 355.
20
. Queen Hortense,
Mémoires,
I, 187.
21
. Jules Bertaut,
L’Impératrice Joséphine,
135.
22
. Ducrest,
Mémoires,
II, 33.
23
. Marquise de la Tour du Pin,
Journal,
85.
24
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 352.
25
. Ibid., I, 354.
26
. As her lady-in-waiting put it, “the idleness of a Court life makes the day seem a hundred hours long” (Rémusat 131).
27
. Bertrand,
Cahiers,
I, 345.
28
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
1, 61.
29
. Bertrand,
Cahiers,
I, 365.
30
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
I, 5.
31
. Ducrest,
Mémoires,
1, 33. Mme. de Rémusat,
Mémoires,
1, 29.
32
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 450.
33
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 152, 99.
34
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 153, 99.
35
. Ducrest,
Mémoires,
1, 33.
36
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 420.
37
. Ibid., I, 430.
38
.
Ibid., I, 463.
39
. Ibid., I, 460.
40
. See Kiefer,
Empress Josephine,
29.
41
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 345.
42
. Kybalová and others, 243.
43
. Queen Hortense,
Mémoires,
II, 120.
44
. Kybalová and others, 243.
45
. Christopher Herold,
Mistress to an Age,
104.
46
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
II, 300.
47
. Ducrest,
Mémoires,
I, 12.
48
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 166, 1800, 106.
49
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 200.
50
. Bertaut, 132.
51
. C. October–November 1799,
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
93.
52
.
Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène,
in Kiefer, 26.
53
. Rémusat,
L’Impératrice Joséphine
(Paris: Livre Club D’Histoire, 1956), I, 13.
12.
“The Most Beautiful Thing in the World”
1
. Hubert,
Malmaison,
17.
2
. Ibid.
3
. Ibid., 18.
4
. Ibid., 17.
5
. Ibid., 20.
6
. “Le décor intérieur,”
Musée National du château de Malmaison,
85.
7
. Gerstein, “Josephine at Malmaison,” 15.
8
. Ibid.
9
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 140, 1799, 94.
10
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 209, November 23, 1803, 137.
11
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 213, March 19, 1804, 142–43.
12
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 213, March 19, 1804, 142–43.
13
. Ventenat,
Le Jardin de Malmaison,
88.
14
. Ibid., 89.
15
. To Josephine at Plombières, Bonazzi,
Lettres d’amour,
161.
16
. Napoleon made his old principal at Brienne head of the library.
17
. Jill, Duchess of Hamilton,
Napoleon, the Empress and the Artist,
114.
18
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 485, June 14, 1813, 348–49.
19
. Hubert,
Malmaison,
32.
20
.
Impératrice Joséphine, Correspondance,
letter 485, June 14, 1813, 348–49.
21
. Fontaine, July 1, 1802, cited in Gerstein, 16.
22
.
Lettres Intimes,
letter X, 179.
23
. Hubert, 1989, 34–35.
24
. Fontaine, July 1, 1802, cited in Gerstein, 16.
25
. Bruce, 306.
26
. Kiefer, 12–16.
27
.
In 1805 she opened the property to members of the Institut de France and administrators of the Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, publishing an invitation in the
Maison encyclopédique.
28
.
Lettres de Napoléon à Joséphine, réunies et préfacées par le Dr. Léon Cerf
(Paris, 1928), 57.
29
. Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès,
Autobiography and Recollections of Laura Duchess of Abrantès (widow of General Junot)
(Bentley, 1893), 407.
30
. Hamilton,
Napoleon, the Empress and the Artist,
118.
31
. Hamilton, 118.
32
. This was recorded in Fontaine’s journal on July 2, 1800. Cited in Bernard Chevallier,
Le Château de Malmaison, des origines à 1904
(Paris: Réunions des musées nationaux, 1989), 279.
33
. Hamilton, 119.
34
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 525.
35
. Stuart, 285.
36
. Napoleon to Josephine, July 1, 1802, Bonazzi,
Lettres d’amour,
118–202.
37
. Hubert,
Malmaison,
23.
38
. Ibid., 22.
39
. Ibid.
40
. Ibid., 23.
41
. Mme. Junot, cited in Hubert, 1989, 23.
42
. Napoleon to Josephine, June 19, 1802, Bonazzi, 25.
43
. François Jarry,
Hortense de Beauharnais
(Paris: Giovanangeli, 2009), 66.
44
. Queen Hortense,
Mémoires,
1, 2.
45
. Jarry, 59.
46
. On this account, see Hubert, 1989, 24–25.
47
. Jarry, 66.
48
. Rémusat,
Mémoires,
II, 323.
49
. Mme. Campan, letter to Hortense, cited in Jarry, 62.
50
. Bertaut, 140.
51
. Bourrienne,
Mémoires,
I, 213.
52
. Ibid., I, 525.