Napoléon et Marie-Louise - Souvenirs historiques

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Author:  M. le baron de Meneval

Publisher:  Société Typographique Belge

Place of printing:  Brussels

Year of publication:  1843

Product Condition:
Work in three volumes in good condition. Half leather bindings with titles and rich gilt friezes on the spines; embossed decoration and gold fillets on plates: abrasions on plates, hinges, backs, curved edges and corners. Slightly burnished cuts with traces of dust and blooms. Well preserved papers with scattered flourishes of different sizes and intensities, especially in the first two volumes. Text in French. Texte en Français.

Pages:  (2)343,(3);(2),327,(3);(2),312,(2)

Format:  In sixteenth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  16
Width:  11

Description

From the Avertissement: L'empereur me dit un jour: “Dans l'ordre de la nature, je dois mourir avant vous; quand je ne serai plus, que ferez-vous? Vous écrirez” Et comme je répondais par un geste negatif, il ajouta: “Vous ne résisterez pas au désir d'écrire des mémoires”. Third edition of these memoirs, exceptional first-hand testimony of one of Napoleon's closest collaborators. Claude François Meneval, in fact, after having been secretary to Joseph Bonaparte, was hired by Napoleon, at the time First Consul, in April 1802: after an examination of his ability to withstand the frenetic pace of dictation of Napoleon's correspondence, Meneval he moved to live in the Tuileries, available day and night in his duties as first secretary, a position he held until 1813. Meneval followed Napoleon in all his military campaigns and was therefore present at all the meetings between rulers that marked those turbulent years. In 1807 Napoleon and Josephine witnessed his wedding in the Salon d'Honneur of the Tuileries. Meneval also followed Napoleon during the Russian Campaign from which he returned seriously ill. During the Elbe period, he sent continuous reports from Vienna to his Emperor and reached him immediately during the 100 days. He was also going to follow him to Saint Helena, but he wasn't allowed to. He refused to collaborate with the Restoration: "I cannot, having served such a great man." He then devoted himself to drafting his memoirs which were published in the first edition in 1827, and later in 1835 and 1843.

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