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by Adam Zamoyski


  Napoleon II, titular Emperor of the French and King of Rome (N’s son): birth, 487–9; christening, 489; portrait, 527, 532; (burnt), 540; N arranges regency for, 555; N presents to Paris National Guard, 579; security during allied advance, 585; N nominates as successor on abdication, 587, 595; N proclaims Emperor of the French, 621; given Austrian title by Francis, 629; lock of hair passed to N on St Helena, 635

  Napoléon-Vendée, 435

  Narbonne, Louis de, 511–12, 523, 555, 557–8, 564–5

  National Guard: N reforms, 97

  Necker, Jacques, 272

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Viscount: sails to Mediterranean, 180–1; Aboukir Bay victory, 188; on severe treatment of French, 301; Trafalgar victory, 379

  neo-classical movement, 123

  Nesselrode, Karl von, 442, 564, 576, 593

  Netherlands: and Metternich’s peace proposals, 576; see also Holland

  Neuhoff, Theodor von, Baron, 11–12

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 212

  Ney, Marshal Michel: made marshal, 376; opposes Austrians, 377–8; in Poland, 408; Bennigsen attacks, 413; commands in Spain, 435; animosity towards Soult, 461; in advance on Moscow, 523; at Borodino, 527; in retreat from Russia, 539–42; delay at Bautzen, 558; defeated at Dennewitz, 568; advises N to abdicate, 587; meets Alexander in Paris, 588–9; reports to N, 589; pledges submission to new government, 590; signs Treaty of Fontainebleau, 593; joins N on return from Elba, 607

  Nice: incorporated into French Republic, 76

  Normandy: N’s progress through, 324–5

  Northumberland, HMS, 626–7, 636

  Noverraz, Jean Abram, 597, 626

  Novosiltsev, Count Nikolai, 373–4

  Ocaña, battle of (1809), 462

  Odoards, Colonel Fantin des see Fantin des Odoards, Colonel Louis Florimond

  Odone family: Buonaparte lawsuit against, 24–5, 35

  O’Hara, General Charles, 72

  Olmütz, 380–1

  O’Meara, Barry, 626, 630, 632, 639–40

  Oneglia, Republic of Genoa, 76–7, 80

  Ordre de la Réunion, 459

  Orient, l’ (French warship), 178, 188

  Orléans, Louis-Philippe, duc d’ (later King Louis-Philippe): suggested as successor to N, 279

  Orthez, battle of (1814), 582

  Ossian (James Macpherson): N admires, 82, 106, 118, 124, 178, 221, 634

  Ott von Bátorkéz, General Peter Karl, 274–5

  Otto, Louis-Guillaume, 268, 301

  Ottoman Empire: French relations with, 159–61; and French expedition to Egypt, 174; declares war on France, 195–6, 200; defeated at Aboukir, 204; N encourages to move against Russia, 413; makes peace with Russia, 507, 522

  Oubril, Peter von, 342, 364, 396, 401–2

  Oudinot, General Nicolas-Charles: in anti-N plot, 318; at Wagram, 454; despatched to Holland, 479; in war against Russia, 514; in retreat from Moscow, 542; threatens Berlin, 560; defeated at Grossbeeren, 567; advises N to abdicate, 587; leaves N, 592

  Ouvrard, Gabriel, 387, 477, 620

  Pacca, Cardinal Bartolomeo, 463

  Palais-Royal, Paris, 37–8

  Palm, Johann Philipp, 402

  Panattieri (Corsican), 146

  Paoli, Pasquale: proclaims and rules Corsican republic, 12–13; Carlo serves, 13–14; resists French takeover of Corsica, 13, 29; N admires, 28, 41, 50; returns to Corsica, 44–6; powers in Corsica, 46; N sends writings to, 48; mistrusts French, 50–1; rejects N, 53; administration fails, 58; Lucien denounces, 60–1; N sends report of Sardinia expedition to, 60; outlawed, 61; N denounces, 66; second exile in London, 81; and Panattieri, 146; N’s relations with, 247; N considers return of, 316

  papacy: French hostility to, 148

  Papal States: conflict with Austria and Naples, 291; N occupies strategic ports, 426–7; N orders military occupation, 428; N incorporates into French Empire, 462–3, 484

  Paravicini, Geltruda, 13

  Paravicini, Saveria (‘Minanna’), 17

  Paris: terror in, 70; coup topples Robespierre, 79; hedonism after end of Terror, 83–4; financial crisis, 84–5; N stays in after transfer to Army of the West, 84–8; women socialites, 88–9; susceptibility to riots, 97; prisons, 99–100; N’s plans for improvement, 179, 260, 360, 399–400, 481–2; Invalides (Temple of Mars), 212; Pantheon, 212; N reaches on return from Egypt, 214; Temple of Victory (formerly church of Saint-Sulpice), 221; administrative structure, 265; attracts foreign visitors, 325–6; civic improvements for N’s coronation, 359–60; N returns to after Tilsit, 418; Madeleine, 480; Louvre, 481; improved and beautified, 489–90; communication with Moscow after occupation, 533; allies advance on, 584–5; surrenders to allies, 586–7; N returns to from Elba, 607–10; allies enter, 623

  Paris, Treaty of (1814), 611

  Parma, duchy of, 121, 1333

  Parma, Ferdinand, Duke of, 297

  Pasquier, Étienne, 509, 574–5, 608

  Patterson, Elizabeth: marriage and child with Jérôme, 366, 372–3; N demands Pope annul marriage to Jérôme, 427

  Paul I, Tsar of Russia, 282, 300, 313, 332, 345, 348

  Paulin, Colonel Jules Antoine, 598

  Pavia, 127

  Pelet de la Lozère, Jean, 390

  Pelleport, Colonel Pierre de, 191, 556

  Penal Code, 483

  Peraldi, Giovanni, 51–2

  Peraldi, Marius, 51, 54, 62

  Percier, Charles, 128

  Peretti, abbé, 43, 46

  Permon, Charles Martin (tax official), 29, 32

  Permon, Laure, 88

  Permon, Panoria, 55, 89

  Persia: signs Treaty of Finckenstein, 413

  Petit Luxembourg: N moves to, 239

  Petrovskoe, 531

  Peyrusse, Pierre Guillaume, 596, 601–2, 619

  Philadelphes (secret organisation), 340

  Piacenza, 121

  Pichegru, General Charles, 145, 158, 170, 283, 340, 342–4, 349, 354

  Picot, Louis, 340, 343

  Piedmont: N promises to liberate, 111, 125; regiments disbanded, 139; incorporated into France, 297, 334–5

  Pietrasanta, Giuseppe Maria, 14

  Pillnitz, Saxony, 299

  Pitt, William the Younger, 268–9, 301, 374; death, 396

  Pius VI, Pope, 148–9, 291

  Pius VII, Pope: elected pope, 291; refuses to release Talleyrand from clerical vows, 292; Louis XVIII protests to, 315; and N’s coronation, 359, 367–9; and N’s seizure of Papal ports, 426; abducted and detained, 463, 470, 502, 554, 574; excommunicates N, 463; N’s inflexible attitude to, 484; French bishops swear allegiance to, 502; abrogates new concordat, 554, 574

  plague: in Middle East, 198–9, 203

  Plaigne, Éléonore de la: as N’s mistress and mother of son, 398, 409, 622

  Plesswitz: armistice (1813), 560

  Plutarch, 124

  Poland: partitioned, 298–9; N incorporates soldiers into army, 406–8, 494; pleads for independence, 406; welcomes N, 407; conditions, 408–9; N cedes half to Russia, 457, 494–5; N borrows on income, 491; N’s policy on, 494–5, 498; and Russian war with N, 497, 513, 519; proposed creation as buffer state, 512; N nominates Jérôme as king, 513; N threatens to destroy, 558

  Polignac, Prince Jules de, 342, 344, 354

  Pomerania, 506

  Poniatowski, Prince Joseph, 457, 520, 522, 527, 553, 555, 561; death at Leipzig, 571

  Pons de l’Hérault, André, 600, 604

  Pont-de-Briques, near Boulogne, 361

  Pontécoulant, Louis Gustave Le Doulcet de, 90, 153, 163, 420, 579, 613

  Poppleton, Captain William Thomas, 628, 637

  Portalis, Jean-Étienne, 286

  Portugal: and Peace of Badjoz, 302; and Treaty of Tilsit, 416; N plans to take over with Charles IV, 424; Britain supports, 425; Wellington’s successes in, 435

  Posen, 406–7

  Potocka, Countess Anna, 410

  Pouget, Colonel François-René, 379

  Pozzo di Borgo, Carlo Andrea di, 44, 46, 54, 81,
507

  Pozzo di Borgo, Maria Giustina, 24–5

  Pozzo di Borgo, Matteo, 51–2

  Pradt, Dominique Dufour de, Archbishop of Malines, 512, 544

  Prague: congress (1813), 564–5

  press: N’s view of freedom, 246–7

  Pressburg, Treaty of (1805), 385

  Primolano, 138

  Provera, General Giovanni, marquese de, 114, 147–8

  Prussia: territorial expansion, 299; in League of Neutrals, 300; population, 337; Russia seeks alliance with, 352; threatens to join coalition (1805), 380–1; acquires Hanover, 385, 401; N signs treaty of alliance with (1805), 385; opposition to N, 401–2; invades Saxony, 402; N belittles, 402–3, 406; war with N (1806–7), 403–4; N receives indemnities from, 419–20, 460; effect of French domination, 460; anti-French sentiments, 461; and N’s war with Russia, 507; declares war on France (1813), 552, 555

  Pułtusk, battle of (1806), 408

  Pyramids, battle of the (1898), 186

  Quasdanovitch, General Peter, 134, 138

  Quenza, Giovanni Battista, 52, 59–60

  Raab, battle of (1809), 453

  Racine, Jean: Phèdre, 585

  Radet, General Étienne, 463

  Ragny, 84–5

  Raguidot (notary), 104

  Rapp, General Count Jean: serves N as aide, 277; dislikes formality and ceremony, 354; at Austerlitz, 383; in Russian campaign, 525, 528, 535; besieged in Danzig, 566

  Rastatt, congress of (1797), 167–8, 170, 173

  Ratisbon (Regensburg): Recess of (1803), 333; battle of (1809), 450

  Raynal, Guillaume Thomas, abbé, 34

  Razumovsky, Count Andrey, 536

  Réal, Pierre-François, 214–15, 218, 295, 321, 342–5, 608

  Récamier, Juliette, 88

  Recco, abbé, 17

  Regnaud de Saint-Jean-d’Angély, Michel, 157, 217, 220, 349, 458, 470, 619, 621

  Regnier, Claude-Ambroise, 345

  Reims, battle of (1814), 583

  religion: N’s views on, 31, 39, 290–1, 306; N revives, 314–15; in N’s coronation, 359; in Spain, 432

  Rémusat, Auguste de, 368

  Rémusat, Claire de, 258, 420

  Reserve Army, 271–2

  Reubell, Jean-François, 169, 174

  Revel-Honoré, Captain Jean-François, 394

  Ricard, General Étienne Pierre Sylvestre, 582

  Richelieu, Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de, 632

  Ricord, Jean-François, 70, 73, 77–9

  Ricord, Marguerite, 78

  Rigo, Michel, 204

  Rivière, Charles François Riffardeau, marquis de, 342, 344, 354

  Rivoli, 147

  Robert, Hubert, 128

  Robespierre, Augustin, 72–3, 77–9

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 78–9, 83, 88, 93, 100, 163, 610

  Rochambeau, General Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de, 340

  Roederer, Pierre-Louis: supports N’s bid for office, 217–19; on return from Egypt, 228, 234; on N’s inarticulacy, 236; opposes anti-Jacobin measures, 238; N disclaims ambitions to, 253; N offers gift to, 258; and N’s administrative aims, 264–5; and N at Marengo, 280; and N’s view of religion in state, 290; urges upgrade in N’s status, 318; and expedition to Saint-Domingue, 331; and N’s reaction to being emperor, 351; on popular anger at government over conspiracy trials, 354; N defends Josephine to, 366

  Roguet, General François, 526, 540

  Rome: N ordered to march on, 129

  Rosetta, 184

  Rostopchin, Fyodor Vasilyevich, Count, 530, 536

  Rouget de l’Isle, Claude, 271

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: visits Corsica, 12, 16; influence on N, 35, 37, 39, 49–50, 124, 194, 610; on noble savage, 184; reputation, 212; N regrets having been born, 283; Du Contrat Social, 263–4

  Roustam Raza, 207, 209, 251, 304, 405, 445, 450, 543, 593

  Roustan, Antoine Jacques, 35

  Roveredo, 137

  Rowlandson, Thomas, 332

  Royal Navy (British): in Mediterranean, 269; supremacy, 374; captures Spanish ships, 387

  Royer-Collard, Antoine, 318

  Rumbold, George, 343

  Rumiantsev, Count Nikolai, 437

  Rumigny, General Théodore de, 409, 615

  Russia: signs anti-French alliance with Naples and Britain (1798), 196; Masséna defeats in Switzerland, 213; territorial expansion, 298–9; resents British power, 300; negotiates alliance with Austria and Britain, 362; prepares for war, 364, 497–9; supports Austria (1805), 380–1; at Austerlitz, 383; peace negotiations with France (1806), 401; and Treaty of Tilsit, 415–16, 437; contravenes Continental System against Britain, 441–2, 496–8; N cedes half of Poland to, 457; fear of France, 493–4; anger at Bernadotte’s election to Swedish throne, 496; economic hardships, 496; Metternich blames for war, 503; N raises army against, 505–6; treaty with Turkey, 507, 522; organisation of army against N, 513; adopts scorched-earth policy, 525; casualties at Borodino, 529; N retreats from, 536–7; N considers Austria mediating in peace negotiations with, 550; advance into Europe, 552–3; proposes treating with N on condition of abdicating, 613; see also Alexander I, Tsar

  Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, comte de (marquis de Sade): Zoloé et ses deux acolytes, 101

  Saint-Denis, Louis-Étienne (‘Ali’), 597, 626, 628

  Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 328–32, 337, 340

  Saint-Elme, Ida, 257

  Saint-Germain, Charles-Louis de, 27

  St Helena (island): as potential prison for N, 604, 625; N arrives at, 627; N’s life on, 627–39; allied commissioners arrive, 635–6; cost of N’s confinement, 636–7

  Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy de, 189

  Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de: Paul et Virginie, 82, 89

  Saint-Simon, Claude-Henri de, 356

  Salamanca, battle of (1812), 526–7

  Salayeh, battle of (1898), 188

  Saliceti, Cristoforo: as Corsican deputy to States General, 43–4; appointed commissioner to investigate Paoli, 60–3; flees Corsica for France, 64, 67; and N at Toulon, 68, 70, 72–3; publishes N’s Le Souper de Beaucaire, 68; supervises Army of Italy, 77; sends N to Genoa, 78; accuses N of sabotaging army operations in Italy, 79; supports N in Italy, 108, 116, 121, 145; exploitation in Italy, 127; transferred to Corsica, 145; and Brumaire coup, 227; rules in Genoa, 373

  Salines, Les (Corsica), 24–5, 35–6

  Sandoz-Rollin, Daniel von, 1, 7–8

  Santini, Jean-Noël (Corsican servant on St Helena), 639

  Saragossa, 461

  Sardinia: invasion from Corsica, 58–60; forces invade southern France, 76; Austria supports against French, 80, 103; armistice with France, 103; army strength, 111; war with N’s Army of Italy, 112–15

  Savary, General Anne-Jean-Marie: joins N’s staff after Marengo, 277; acting, 320; intelligence service, 321; and trial and execution of Enghien, 346; and N’s negotiations with Tsar, 381; and N’s peace negotiations with Britain (1806), 396; in Warsaw, 410; in Spain with N, 445; investigates Fouché plot, 477; policing methods and style, 482–3; and Malet plot, 549; negotiates with Talleyrand, 589; and N’s return from Elba, 608; and N’s position after Waterloo defeat, 619; and N’s attempted flight to America, 620, 623; prevented from accompanying N to St Helena, 626; and N’s entourage in St Helena, 641

  Savona, 112

  Savoy: incorporated into French Republic, 76; in Metternich’s peace proposals, 576

  Savoy, house of: rule in Sardinia, 59

  Saxony: Prussia invades, 402; Russia invades with Prussia, 556

  Scherer, General Barthélémy, 6, 103

  Schill, Major Ferdinand von, 449

  Schlegel, Friedrich, 449

  Schwarzenberg, Prince Karl von: as Austrian ambassador in Paris, 473; and N’s marriage to Marie-Louise, 473, 479; commands Austrians in Russian campaign, 514, 539, 545, 547; disparages Kutuzov, 545; withdraws through Poland, 553, 557; on N’s wish to avoid war, 555; in allied army against N, 566–9, 578, 580–1; repels N at Arc
is-sur-Aube, 583–4

  Sébastiani, Captain Horace, 222, 224, 232, 335; see also Louis XVIII, King of France

  Ségur, Louis-Philippe de, 368, 448

  Ségur, Philippe-Paul de, 250, 355, 445, 504, 506, 572

  Selim III, Ottoman Sultan, 414

  Sémonville, Charles Huguet de, 59

  Senate: at Luxembourg, 251; and proposed extension of N’s consulship, 319; expanded, 323, 357

  senatus-consulte (edict), 295, 319, 323, 398, 470, 555

  Sérurier, General Jean-Mathieu: in Army of Italy, 107, 110; at Savona, 112; pursues Beaulieu, 119–20; invests Mantua, 128

  Seurre, 40

  Seven Years’ War (1756–63), 13, 22

  Shakespeare, William, 212

  Shuvalov, Pavel Andreyevich, Count, 497, 597, 599

  Sicily, 425–6, 428

  Sièyes, Emmanuel-Joseph, abbé: N discusses metaphysics with, 170; prepares coup and change to constitution, 211, 218, 220–3; N’s relations with, 219; and Brumaire coup, 226–7, 229, 235; nominated consul, 234, 236; accepts N’s supremacy, 237; drafts new constitution, 239–40, 242, 322; nominates N as first consul, 242; helps launch Revolution, 243; resigns as provisional consul, 243; devises French administrative structure, 265; schemes against N, 279; N berates in Senate, 308; and proposed extension of N’s consulship, 319; opposes granting N supreme status, 350; N receives in Paris after return from Elba, 610

  slaves and slavery: abolished in French colonies, 328–9, 331; rebellions, 330–1; N abolishes trade, 612

  Smith, Spencer, 344

  Smith, Commodore Sydney, 200–1, 205–6, 269

  Smolensk, 523–4, 534, 536, 538–9

  Songis, Nicolas-Marie, 78–9, 92

  Sorbier, Jean-Joseph, 33

 

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