Bouhler, Napoleon, Grasset, 1942.
Mauguin, Napoleon et la superstition, anecdotes et curiosites, Carri-ere, Rodez, 1946.
Bertaut, Napoleon ignore, Sfelt, 1951- Describes his superstitions, his horses, his moods.
Bnce, he Secret de Napoleon, Payot, 1936. [10J
Frugier, Napoleon, essai medico-psychologique , Albatros, 1985.
Emerson, Representative Men, 'Essays
Taine, hes Origines de la France contemporaine, Hachette. 1907, tome 11. An acid portrait. [ 11J
Faure, Elie, Napoleon, 'L'Herne', La Table Ronde, 1964. Reflective and full of admiration. [12]
6. On Stendhal.
QLuvres intimes I, 'La Pleiade', 1981. Contains, as an appendix, extracts from the Journal of Felix Faure in 1809 from which I have stolen the scene of Moliere's Don Juan performed as an opera. The production took place on 12 August, and not at the end of May as in the novel. The words I have put in
the mouth of my Henri Beyle are, as far as possible, genuinely his own. Similarly, with Napoleon, Massena and Lannes, I have allowed myself to repeat what, according to witnesses, they actually said. Correspondance I, 'La Pleiade', 1968. Stendhal, De 1'amour, Gallimard, 'Folio', 1980. [13] Crouzet, Stendhal ou Monsieur Moi-Meme, Flammarion, 1990.
English Translations
Numbers in square brackets correspond to those in the list above. Where no translator is stated the translation is anonymous. All are out of print save the first.
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). [1]
Lejeune, Baron de, Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, tr. Mrs Arthur Bell (2 vols: London: Longmans Green, 1897). [2]
Coignet, Jean Roch, The narrative of Captain Coignet, soldier of the Empire, 1776-1850, tr. M. Carey (London: Chatto and Windus, 1897).
Also The note books of Captain Coignet (London: Peter Davies, 1928).
(Both are translations of Les cahiers.) [3]
Parquin, Denis Charles, Napoleon's army: the military memoirs of Charles Parquin, ed. B. T. Jones (London: Longman, 1969; repr. London: Lionel Leventhal, 1987). [4]
Robiquet, Jean, Daily Life in Trance under Napoleon, tr. Violet M. MacDonald (London: Allen and Unwin, 1962). [5]
Stael-Holstein, Anne Louis Germaine de, Baroness, Germany, tr. O. W. Wight (New York, 1871). [6]
Stendhal, A Life of Napoleon (London: Rodale Press, 1956). [7] Bainville. Jacques. Napoleon, tr. Hamish Miles (London: Jonathan Cape, 1932). [8]
Ludwig, Emil, Napoleon, tr. Eden and Cedar Paul (London:
Allen and Unwin, 1927). [9] Brice. Leon Raoul Mane, The riddle of Napoleon, tr. Basil
Creighton (London: Putman, 1937). [10] Taine. Hippolyte Adolphe, The origins of contemporarx France, tr.
John Durand (Chicago and London: University of Chicago,
1974). [11]
Faure, Elie, Napoleon, tr. Jeffery E. Jeffery (London: Constable
and Co.. 1924). [12] Stendhal, Love. tr. Gilbert and Suzanne Sale (Harmondsworth:
Penguin. 1975). (The most recent of several translations.) I13]
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DE PROFUNDIS!
Finallv. here is what became of the historical figures who feature most prominently in the novel.
Louis-Francois Lejeune, General and Baron, retired in 1813 after an extremely eventful military career to devote himself to painting. He became the director ot the Ecole des beaux-arts in Toulouse and died in that town in Februarv 1S4S, aged seventv-three. He introduced lithographv to France.
Andre Massena was created Prince of Essling and. still suffering from a leg iniury, gave orders from a barouche at of Wagram. Alter an unsuccessful campaign in Spain, he was disgraced. Appointed Governor ot Paris immediately arter W aterloo, he died there trom a chest illness, eight years atter of Essling.
Lou is-Alex andre Berthier. Prince of Neuchatel and ot Wagram. fell from a window of Bamberg Castle in Bavaria in 1S1 ^. Suicide : He was very depressed by Napoleon's return trom Elba. Assassination : Did someone want to prevent him rejoining Napoleon?
Jeax-Marie-Pierre-Francois Dorsenne died three years after of Essling as a result of his head wound.
Jean Bessieres was killed by a roundshot during the Saxony campaign in May 1813, as was Lasalle at Wagram.
Charles-Marie-Robert, Count of Escorche de Sainte-Croix, was cut in two by a roundshot in Portugal, a year after Essling. He was twenty-eight.
Jean Boudet committed suicide in Bohemia in September 1809. The Emperor had unjustly reprimanded him for his conduct at Essling.
Jean-Baptiste Marbot, General and Baron, became tutor to Louis Philippe's son. He died a peer of France under the Second Empire aged seventy-two.
Twenty-one years after of Essling, Henri Beyle published Le Rouge et Le Noir under the name Stendhal.
NAPOLEON'S MAJOR BATTLES
Date
Battle
15-17 November 1796 Areola
2 Julv 1798
21 July 1798
iS March to 20 May 1799
5-6 July 1809 7 September 1812
Alexandria Pyramids Siege of Acre
Wagram Borodino
Xapoleon's opponents Austrians Egyptians Egyptians
Ottoman and British - Napoleon defeated
26-28 November 1812 Berezina
- Napoleon defeated Austrians Russians Russians
19 October 1813 Leipzig, Allies
' of - Napoleon defeated the Nations'
une 1815 Waterloo Allies
- Napoleon defeated for the last time
Aspern-Essling, 21-22 May I809; Day Two
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4.00 a.m.: for Aspern resumes. 4.00 a.m.: Battle for control of Essling resumes. 7.00 a.m.: II Corps commences attack in centre.
8.00 a.m.: Heavy cavalry break through Austrian cavalry but are forced to retire.
8.00 a.m.: Lasalle and Marulaz attack 3rd Column but are repulsed.
9.00 a.m.: Grenadier Reserve arrive in front line. First attack by D'Aspre is repulsed
I 2 noon: Four Grenadier battalions join attack on Essling.
2.00 p.m.: II Corps begins to retire.
2.00 p.m.:Austrian troops take permanent control of Aspern.
4.00 p.m.: French Army begins to retreat. is over.
Austrian moves Earlier Austrian moves French moves Earlier French moves French retreat Aspern-Essling ditch Woodland
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