"The clanging chorus goes-- Law, Order, Duty and Restraint, Obedience, Discipline."
FOOTNOTES
[6] Sometimes he is perhaps more to be trusted than the leading lexicographer, as for example when, the day after Wagram, he writes his Minister of War that the _coup de Jarnac_ will come from the English in Spain. Now, when the Jarnac in question was slain in fair fight by La Chateignerie by a blow _au jarret_, it was an _unexpected_ blow, but not surely, as Littré tells us, _manoeuvre perfide_, _déloyale_. Nothing was too disloyal for perfidious Albion, but for 30,000 English to outmanoeuvre three marshals and 100,000 French veterans would be, and was, the unexpected which happened at Talavera three weeks later.
[7] Findel's _History of Freemasonry_.
[8] Lord Rosebery.
[9] This versatile writer, the author of _Oberon_, the translator of Lucian and Shakespeare, and the founder of psychological romance in Germany, was then in his seventy-fifth year.
[10] The historian (1755-1809), "the Thucydides of Switzerland."
[11] Horne's _History of Napoleon_ (1841).
[12] Ibid.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Column Headings:
A: Pages. B: Series. C: Dates. D: No. of Letters. E: Sources. F: Tennant. G: Didot. H: Various. I: Pages of Corresponding Notes.
| | | | | E | | | A | B| C | D |----------------------------------- | I | | | | | | F | G | H | | | | | | | | |{No. 2, from } | | | 1-16 | A|1796 | 8 |{ Nos.} | |{ St. Amand, } |198-211| | | | | |{1, } | |{ _La Citoyenne_} | | | | | | |{3-8 } | |{ _Bonaparte_ } | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |{Nos. }|{No. 15, from } | | | 17-38 | B|1796-7 | 25 | |{1-14 }|{ Bourrienne's } |211-223| | | | | | |{16-25}|{ _Life of_ } | | | | | | | | |{ _Bonaparte_ } | | | | | | | | | | | | 39-46 | C|1800 | 4 | No. 3 | 1,2,4 | |223-225| | | | | | | | | | | 47-53 | D|1801-2 | 5 | | all | |225-231| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |{No. 1, } | | | | | | | | |{ _Correspondence_}| | 55-60 | E|1804 | 6 | |{Nos. }|{No. 5, } |232-237| | | | | | |{2,3,} |{ Collection } | | | | | | | |{4,6 } |{ of Baron Heath} | | | | | | | | | | | | 61-74 | F|1805 | 19 | | all | |237-243| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |{No. 9A, from } | | | | | | | | |{ Mlle. }|243-264 | | | | | | | | |{ D'Avrillon } | | | 75-118| G|1806-7 | 87 | |all but|{No. 85, from } | | | | | | | | |{ Las Casas } | | | | | | | | | | | |119-122| H|1807 | 3 | | all | |264-267| | | | | | | | | | |123-128| I|1808 | 4 | | all | |267-269| | | | | | | | | | |129-132| J|1808 | 3 | | all | |269-273| | | | | | | | | | |133-140| K|1808-9 | 14 | | all | |273-278| | | | | | | | | | |141-154| L|1809 | 25 | | all | |278-295| | | | | | | | | | |155-165| M|1809-10| 22 | | all | |295-304| | | | | | | | | | |167-176| N|1810 |11[13]| | all | |304-310| | | | | | | | | | |177-181| O|1811 | 4 | | all | |311-312| | | | | | | | | | |183-197| P|1812-14| 2 | | all | |312-315| | | | |------| | | | | | | | | 242 | | | | |
316. APPENDIX (1).--Reputed Poem by Napoleon.
317. APPENDIX (2).--Genealogy of the Bonaparte Family.
317-321. APPENDIX (3).--Spurious Letters of Napoleon to Josephine.
FOOTNOTES
[13] Exclusive of two from Josephine to Napoleon.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
NAPOLEON _Frontispiece_ FROM AN ENGRAVING BY T. WRIGHT, AFTER AN ORIGINAL DRAWING (_Photogravure_)
EUGÈNE BEAUHARNAIS _Face page_ 121 AFTERWARDS VICEROY OF ITALY (_Photogravure_)
JOSEPHINE BEAUHARNAIS _Face page_ 198 _Circa_ 1795 (_Photogravure_)
FAC-SIMILE OF LETTER, DATED APRIL 24, 1796 _Pages_ 202-3
NAPOLEON'S LETTERS
SERIES A
(1796)
"Only those who knew Napoleon in the intercourse of private life can render justice to his character. For my own part, I know him, as it were, by heart; and in proportion as time separates us, he appears to me like a beautiful dream. And would you believe that, in my recollections of Napoleon, that which seems to me to approach most nearly to ideal excellence is not the hero, filling the world with his gigantic fame, but the man, viewed in the relations of private life?"--_Recollections of Caulaincourt_, _Duke of Vicenza_, vol. i. 197.
SERIES A
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 198-211.)
LETTER PAGE
_Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief_ 198
No. 1. 7 A.M. 198
No. 2. _Our good Ossian_ 199
No. 4. _Chauvet is dead_ 199
No. 5. Napoleon's suspicions 199 _The lovers of nineteen_ 200 _My brother_ 200
No. 6. _Unalterably good_ 201 _If you want a place for any one_ 201
No. 7. A criticism by Aubenas 201 _June 15th_ 204 _Presentiment of ill_ 210
No. 8. The Treaty with Rome 210 _Fortuné_ 211
1796.
_February 23rd.--Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy._
No. 1.
_Seven o'clock in the morning._
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? do I see you sad? are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. But is there more for me when, delivering ourselves up to the deep feelings which master me, I breathe out upon your lips, upon your heart, a flame which burns me up--ah, it was this past night I realised that your portrait was not you. You start at noon; I shall see you in three hours. Meanwhile, _mio dolce amor_, accept a thousand kisses,[14] but give me none, for they fire my blood.
N. B.
_A Madame Beauharnais._
* * * * *
_March 9th.--Bonaparte marries Josephine._
_March 11th.--Bonaparte leaves Paris to join his army._
No. 2.
_Chanceaux Post House, March 14, 1796._
I wrote you at Chatillon, and sent you a power of attorney to enable you to receive various sums of money in course of remittance to me. Every moment separates me further from you, my beloved, and every moment I have less energy to exist so far from you. You are the constant object of my thoughts; I exhaust my imagination in thinking of what you are doing. If I see you unhappy, my heart is torn, and my grief grows greater. If you are gay and lively among your friends (male and female), I reproach you with having so soon forgotten the sorrowful separation three days ago; thence you must be fickle, and henceforward stirred by no deep emotions. So you see I am not easy to satisfy; but, my dear, I have quite different sensations when I fear that your health may be affected, or that you have cause to be annoyed; then I regret the haste with which I was separated from my darling. I feel, in fact, that your natural kindness of heart exists no longer for me, and it is only when I am quite sure you are not vexed that I am satisfied. If I were asked how I slept, I feel that before replying I should have to get a message to tell me that you had had a good night. The ailments, the passions of men influence me only when I imagine they may reach you, my dear. May my good genius, which has always preserved me in the midst of great dangers, surround you, enfold you, while I will face my fate unguarded. Ah! be not gay, but a trifle melancholy; and especially may your soul be free from worries, as your body from illness: you know what our good Ossian says on this subject. Write me, dear, and at full length, and accept the thousand and one kisses of your most devoted and faithful friend.