G. Lenotre, Napoléon, croquis de l’epopée, and En suivant l’Empereur. Two vivid and extremely well-documented collections of articles republished by Grasset in ‘Les Cahiers rouges’. I particularly recommend ‘Ce qu’on trouve au fond de la Bérésina’.
Bouhler, Napoléon, Grasset, 1942.
Mauguin, Napoléon et la superstition, Carrère, Rodez, 1942. Anecdotes and curiosities.
Bertaut, Napoléon ignoré, Sfelt, 1951.
Brice, Le Secret de Napoléon, Payot, 1936. [19]
Frugier, Napoléon, essai medico-psychologique, Albatros, 1985.
Taine, Les Origines de la France contemporaine, Tome 11, Hachette, 1907. [20]
Toute l’histoire de Napoléon, Vol. 8, ‘Napoléon et les médecins.’ I found the formula for Napoleon’s poison here.
6. On Charles XII
With regard to the King of Sweden’s Russian expedition, I consulted the same Voltaire as Napoleon, namely, in the Œuvres Complètes, Baudoin Frères, Paris, 1825:
Tome XXX, Histoire de Charles XII.
Tome XXXI, Histoire de Russie, first part.
English Translations
Numbers in square brackets correspond to those in the list above.
Faber du Faur, Christian Wilhelm von, With Napoleon in Russia: the illustrated memoirs of Major Faber du Faur, 1812, ed. and tr. Jonathan North (London: Greenhill, 2001). [1]
Segur, General, Count Philip de, History of the Expedition to Russia undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the year 1812 (2 vols: London: Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuuttel Jun. and Richter, 1825). [2]
Caulaincourt, Armand-Augustin-Louis de, Duke of Vicenza, Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vincenza, tr. Hamish Miles (London: Cassell, 1935). [3]
Ménéval, Claude François de, Baron de, Memoirs to serve for the history of Napoleon I. from 1802 to 1815 I completed by the addition of unpublished documents Tr. and annotated by Robert H. Sherard (3 vols: London, 1894). [4]
Constant, Memoirs of Constant: the Emperor Napoleon’s head valet; containing details of the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court, tr. Percy Pinkerton (London: Hs. Nichols). [5]
Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin, Baron de, The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, tr. Arthur John Butler (London: Longmans Green, 1892; facs. ed. London: Greenhill, 1988). [6]
Lejeune, Baron de, Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, tr. Mrs Arthur Bell (2 vols: London: Longmans Green, 1897). [7]
Fezensac, Raymond Eymery Philippe Joseph de, Duke, A journal of the Russian campaign of 1812, tr. Colonel W. Knollys (London, 1852). [8]
Bausset, Louis-François-Joseph de, Private memoirs of the court of Napoleon, and of some publick events of the imperial reign, from 1805 to the first of May 1814: to serve as a contribution to the history of Napoleon (Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828). [9]
Rapp, Jean, Count, Memoirs of General Count Rapp: first aide-decamp to Napoleon (London: H. Colburn and Co., 1823). [10]
Macdonald, Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre, Duke of Tarentum, Recollections of Marshal Macdonald Duke of Tarentum, tr. Stephen Louis Simeon (London, 1892). [11]
Bourgogne, Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne (London: Jonathan Cape, 1896/1940). [12]
Labaume, Eugène, 1812, through fire and ice with Napoleon: a French officers memoir of the campaign in Russia (Solihull, West Midlands, England: Helion, 2002). [13]
Beyle, Marie Henri, The Private Diaries of Stendhal, ed. and tr. Robert Sage (London: Victor Gollancz, 1955). [14]
Robiquet, Jean, Daily life in France under Napoleon, tr. Violet M. MacDonald (London: Allen and Unwin, 1962). [15]
Beyle, Marie Henri, A life of Napoleon (London: Rodale Press, 1956). [16]
Bainville, Jacques, Napoleon, tr. Hamish Miles; intr. H. A. L. Fisher (London: J. Cape, 1932; Safety Harbor, FL: Simon Publications, 2001). [17]
Ludwig, Emil, Napoleon, tr. Eden and Cedar Paul (London, Allen and Unwin, 1927). [18]
Brice, Léon Raoul Marie, The Riddle of Napoleon, tr. Basil Creighton (London: Putnam, 1937). [19]
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, The origins of contemporary France, tr. John Durand (University of Chicago: Chicago & London, 1974). [20]
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