tailieunhanh - MEMOIRS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE, RETURN, AND REIGN OF NAPOLEON

The revolution of the 20th of March will form unquestionably the most remarkable episode in the life of Napoleon, so fertile as it is in supernatural events. It has not been my intention, to write the history of it: this noble task is above my powers: I have only attempted, to place Napoleon on the stage of action, and oppose his words, his deeds, and the truth, to the erroneous assertions of certain historians, the falsehoods of the spirit of party, and the insults of those timeserving writers, who are accustomed to insult in misfortune those, to whom they. | MEMOIRS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE RETURN AND REIGN OF NAPOLEON IN 1815. Ingratapatria ne ossa quidem habes. Scipio. BY M. FLEURY DE CHABOULON Ex-Secretary of the Emperor Napoleon and of his Cabinets Master of Requests to the Council of State Baron Officer of the Legion of Honour and Knight of the Order of Reunion. vol. I. LONDON JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE-STREET. 1820. TO THE READER. The revolution of the 20th of March will form unquestionably the most remarkable episode in the life of Napoleon so fertile as it is in supernatural events. It has not been my intention to write the history of it this noble task is above my powers I have only attempted to place Napoleon on the stage of action and oppose his words his deeds and the truth to the erroneous assertions of certain historians the falsehoods of the spirit of party and the insults of those timeserving writers who are accustomed to insult in misfortune those to whom they have subsequently paid court. Hitherto people have not been able to agree on the motives and circumstances that determined the Emperor to quit the island of Elba. Some supposed that he had acted of his own accord others that he had conspired with his partisans the downfal of the Bourbons. Both these suppositions are equally false. The world will learn with surprise perhaps with admiration that this astonishing revolution was the work of two individuals and a few words. The narrative of Colonel Z so valuable from the facts it reveals appears to me to merit the reader s attention in other respects. On studying it carefully we find in it the exhibition of those defects those qualities those passions which confounded together form the character so full of contrasts of the incomprehensible Napoleon. We perceive him alternatively mistrustful and communicative ardent and reserved enterprising and irresolute vindictive and generous favourable to liberty and despotic. But we see predominant above all that activity that strength that ardour of mind those brilliant .

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