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34
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington,
Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington
, 15 vols (London, 1858–72), ix. pp. 268–72 and 275–6 (17 and 20 September 1814).
35
.
Chastenay,
Mémoires
, ii. pp. 461–4; Stephen Coote,
Napoleon and the Hundred Days
(London, 2004), p. 114.
36
.
See, for example, Hyde de Neuville,
Mémoires et souvenirs
(1890), ii. pp. 16–36; Iung (ed.),
Lucien Bonaparte
, iii. pp. 210–12.
37
.
MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, pp. 141–2.
38
.
Campbell,
Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba
, p. 300.
39
.
MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, p. 143.
40
.
Campbell,
Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba
, p. 317; Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (ed.),
The First Napoleon: Some Unpublished Documents from the Bowood Papers
(London, 1925), pp. 80–105. Other British visitors to Elba who left accounts include: George Venables Vernon,
Sketch of a Conversation with Napoleon at Elba
(London, 1863–4); Hugh Fortescue Viscount Ebrington,
Memorandum of Two Conversations between the Emperor Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington at Porto-Ferrajo on the 6th and 8th of December 1814
(London, 1823); Ralph A. Griffiths (ed.),
In Conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte: J. H. Vivian’s Visit to the Island of Elba
(Newport, 2008). Others are in John Goldworth Alger,
Napoleon’s British Visitors and Captives 1801–1815
(Westminster, 1904); and Katharine MacDonogh, ‘A Sympathetic Ear: Napoleon, Elba and the British’,
History Today
, 44:2 (1994), 29–35.
41
.
Saint-Denis,
Souvenirs du Mameluck Ali
, p. 68; Godlewski,
Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe
, pp. 49–51.
42
.
Cited in MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, p. 154. Also Baylac,
Napoléon
, pp. 251–5.
43
.
Letter from Pauline to Letizia cited in Masson,
Napoléon et sa famille
, x. p. 328 (25 June 1814).
44
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Oman,
Napoleon’s Viceroy
, pp. 406–21; Bernardy,
Eugène de Beauharnais
, pp. 451–509.
45
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Boudon,
Le roi Jérôme
, pp. 417–23.
46
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Masson,
Napoléon et sa famille
, x. pp. 292–8.
47
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Masson,
Napoléon et sa famille
, x. pp. 221–5; A. Hilliard Atteridge,
Napoleon’s Brothers
(London, 1909), p. 420; Godlewski,
Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe
, pp. 72–3.
48
.
Marchand,
Mémoires
, pp. 124–5.
49
.
Hantraye,
Les cosaques aux Champs-Elysées
, p. 233.
50
.
Constant,
Mémoires
, vi. p. 92.
51
.
Pélissier,
Le registre de l’île d’Elbe
, pp. 64–5 (27 July 1814); Sutherland,
Marie Walewska
, pp. 213–14, 219–22.
52
.
On this episode see MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, pp. 126–30; Baylac,
Napoléon
, pp. 169–72.
53
.
Saint-Denis,
Souvenirs du Mameluck Ali
, pp. 84–6.
54
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MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, p. 130; Baylac,
Napoléon
, p. 162.
55
.
Campbell,
Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba
, p. 175.
56
.
Palmstierna (ed.),
Marie-Louise et Napoléon
, p. 272.
57
.
Mme de Montesquiou, for one, told him as much in April 1814. See Palmstierna (ed.),
Marie-Louise et Napoléon
, pp. 249–50.
58
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Something that she suspected. See Palmstierna (ed.),
Marie-Louise et Napoléon
, pp. 258–9 (5 June 1814).
59
.
Méneval,
Napoléon et Marie-Louise
, ii. pp. 277–89.
60
.
Palmstierna (ed.),
Marie-Louise et Napoléon
, pp. 260–1 (22 June 1814).
61
.
Welvert,
Napoléon et la police
, pp. 116–17 (8 August 1814).
62
.
Houssaye,
1815
, i. pp. 161–4; Masson,
L’impératrice Marie-Louise
, pp. 602–5.
63
.
Fournier,
Marie-Louise et la chute de Napoléon
, pp. 10–11.
64
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Schiel,
Marie-Louise
, pp. 224–5.
65
.
Méneval,
Mémoires
, iii. pp. 341–2.
66
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Méneval,
Mémoires
, iii. p. 344.
67
.
Marie-Louise to Francis (July, 3 August 1814), cited in Schiel,
Marie-Louise
, p. 225.
68
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Méneval,
Mémoires
, iii. p. 347.
69
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Méneval,
Mémoires
, iii. p. 349. Napoleon celebrated the feast of St Napoleon with as much pomp as he could muster (Pons,
Souvenirs et anecdotes
, pp. 231–3; Marchand,
Mémoires
, p. 129.
70
.
Alan Palmer,
Napoleon & Marie Louise: The Emperor’s Second Wife
(London, 2001), pp. 186–7; Godlewski,
Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe
, pp. 154–9.
71
.
Marie-Louise to Francis, 30 September 1814, Fournier,
Marie-Louise et la chute de Napoléon
, p. 17.
72
.
It is possible that Napoleon was aware of their liaison. See Godlewski,
Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe
, pp. 171–4.
73
.
Méneval,
Mémoires
, iii. pp. 421–2.
74
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Palmstierna (ed.),
Marie-Louise et Napoléon
, pp. 276–7 (3 January 1815).
75
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Maurice-Henri Weil,
Les dessous du Congrès de Vienne: d’après les documents originaux des archives du Ministère impérial et royal de l’intérieur à Vienne
, 2 vols (Paris, 1917), i. p. 634 (3 December 1814); ii. p. 73 (23 January 1815).
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.
Campbell,
Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba
, pp. 271, 277.

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