Citizen Emperor (204 page)
Authors: Philip Dwyer
| 77 . | See Hippolyte Larrey, Madame mère: essai historique , 2 vols (Paris, 1892), ii. pp. 66–76; Scott, An Englishman at Home and Abroad , p. 106; Baylac, Napoléon , pp. 173–6. |
| 78 . | Pons, Souvenirs et anecdotes , pp. 267–8. |
| 79 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , p. 272. |
| 80 . | Pons, Souvenirs et anecdotes , p. 207. |
| 81 . | Young, Napoleon in Exile: Elba , p. 233. |
| 82 . | According to Campbell, in Wellington, Supplementary Despatches , ix. pp. 268–73 (17 September 1814). |
| 83 . | Chastenay, Mémoires , ii. pp. 429–32; Natalie Petiteau, Lendemains d’Empire: les soldats de Napoléon dans la France du XIXe siècle (Paris, 2003), pp. 108–14; Natalie Petiteau, ‘Le retour de guerre: destins de vétérans après 1815’, in Jacques-Olivier Boudon (ed.), Armée, guerre et société à l’époque napoléonienne (Paris, 2004), pp. 87–103; Natalie Petiteau, ‘La Restauration face aux vétérans de l’Empire’, in Martine Reid, Jean-Yves Mollier and Jean-Claude Yon (eds), Repenser la Restauration (Paris, 2005), pp. 31–43. |
| 84 . | See the police reports in AN F7 3783, for accounts of public professions of support for Napoleon among the military (esp. 11, 18, 20 July and 7, 19 October 1814). On the political tensions in Paris see Mansel, Paris between Empires , pp. 63–6. |
| 85 . | Zamoyksi, Rites of Peace , p. 450. |
| 86 . | Branda, Le prix de la gloire , p. 62. |
| 87 . | MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , p. 173. |
| 88 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , pp. 304, 318–19. |
| 89 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , p. 343. |
| 90 . | Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 93–9; MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , pp. 150–2; David King, Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna (New York, 2009), p. 170. |
| 91 . | Barante, Souvenirs , i. p. 120; Weil, Les dessous du Congrès de Vienne , i. pp. 404–6 (15 October 1814); Houssaye, 1815 , i. pp. 170–2; Lentz, Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire , iv. pp. 281–3; Baylac, Napoléon , pp. 226–30. |
| 92 . | ‘Lettre du Comte de Chauvigny’, in De l’exil au retour de l’île d’Elbe , pp. 37–42 (12 June 1814); Houssaye, 1815 , i. pp. 171–2 n. 4. |
| 93 . | Houssaye, 1815 , i. pp. 172–3; Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 90–8. |
| 94 . | Cited in MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , p. 158. |
| 95 . | Pélissier, Le registre de l’île d’Elbe , pp. 110, 113–14 (9 and 11 September); Young, Napoleon in Exile: Elba , pp. 278–81; Baylac, Napoléon , pp. 228–9. |
| 96 . | Pons, Souvenirs et anecdotes , pp. 160–3. |
| 97 . | Journal des débats politiques et littéraires , 19 November 1814; Eynard, Journal , i. p. 97 (9 November 1814), was told by the King of Bavaria that Napoleon would be taken to St Helena. |
| 98 . | Bausset, Mémoires anecdotiques , iii. p. 66. |
| 99 . | Georges Pallain (ed.), Correspondance inédite du Prince de Talleyrand et du roi Louis XVIII pendant le congrès de Vienne (Paris, 1881), p. 43 (13 October 1814). |
100
. Baylac,
Napoléon
, p. 221.
101
. Louis XVIII’s police were reporting on the rapprochement between Napoleon and Murat (Firmin-Didot,
Royauté ou empire
, pp. 75, 87, 139, 158, 234).
102
. Pallain (ed.),
Correspondance inédite du Prince de Talleyrand
, pp. 270–91 (15 February 1815); Lentz,
Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire
, iv. pp. 280–1.
103
. See, for example, the
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires
, 19 November 1814. Welvert,
Napoléon et la police
, p. 272 (19 November 1814).
104
. Campbell,
Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba
, pp. 209–10.
105
. See Bettina Frederking, ‘“Il ne faut pas être le roi de deux peuples”: Strategies of National Reconciliation in Restoration France’,
French History
, 22:4 (2008), 454, 455.
106
. It was also the view of Pons,
Souvenirs et anecdotes
, p. 106.
107
. Firmin-Didot,
Royauté ou empire
, pp. 232–3.
108
. Cited in MacKenzie,
Escape from Elba
, p. 194.
109
. Mollien,
Mémoires
, iii. p. 422; Arthur Chuquet,
Le départ de l’île d’Elbe
(Châtillon-sur-Seine, 1921), pp. 157–9; Lentz,
Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire
, iv. p. 345.
110
. Gourgaud,
Journal de Sainte-Hélène
, ii. p. 7.
111
. Pons,
Souvenirs et anecdotes
, pp. 371–2, 374.
112
. Such as Charles Louis Alexandre Coriolis d’Espinouse,
Le tyran, les alliés et le roi, par M. le Mis de Coriolis d’Espinouse
(Paris, 1814).
113
. Charles Malo,
Napoléoniana, ou Recueil d’anecdotes, saillies, bons mots, réparties, etc. etc, pour servir à l’histoire de la vie de Buonaparte
(Paris, 1814), p. 7. There are dozens if not hundreds of books and pamphlets all directed against Napoleon, not the least of which was Germaine de Staël’s
Attila.
Le pardon de Napoléon Buonaparte, et le caractère de ce grand homme
(Paris, n.d.); abbé Fugantini Poeteraux,
Confession poétique et véridique de Buonaparte au Révérend Père Boniface, ci-devant capucin d’Ajaccio, suivie de son action de grâce à Louis XVIII
(Paris, 1814); Auguste-Louis Ledrut,
Honneur aux militaires, ou Examen impartial de cette question: Buonaparte est-il un héros?
(Paris, 1814);
Epître du diable à Buonaparte
[signed Lucifer] (n.p., 1814);
Adieux à Buonaparte
(n.p., 1814). Surprisingly, little of this literature is directed at other individuals of the Bonaparte family.
114
. L. Verriez,
Le Néron corse
(Gand, 1815), pp. 19, 20. Also F. Chéron,
Napoléon, ou le Corse dévoilé, ode aux Français
(Paris, 1814);
Robespierre et Buonaparte, ou les deux tyrannies
(Paris, 1814);
La queue de Buonaparte, ou les malveillants, les factieux et les agitateurs dévoilés et confondus
(Paris, n.d.). Jean Tulard,
Le mythe de Napoléon
(Paris, 1971), pp. 45–52, outlines a few of the essential texts for 1814 and 1815.
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