Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne: 32 books

Bourrienne is famous for his Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, a book based on years of intimate friendship with his subject. They met at the Military Academy at Brienne in Champagne when eight years old. Napoleon recalled the famous snowball battles that he masterminded: “Unfortunately the pleasure...

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne was educated at the military school of Brienne in Champagne, where he met young Napoleon Bonaparte and became friends. Bourrienne became a diplomat, traveling to posts like Vienna and Leipzig, but he got back in touch with Napoleon by 1792 during the French Revolution....

This memoirs of Antoine de Bourrienne are a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the large Napoleonic literature is so justly celebrated. In this book de Bourrienne shows us the hero of...

This memoirs of Antoine de Bourrienne are a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the large Napoleonic literature is so justly celebrated. In this book de Bourienne shows us the hero of...

This memoirs of Antoine de Bourrienne are a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the large Napoleonic literature is so justly celebrated. In this book de Bourienne shows us the hero of Marengo...

This memoirs of Antoine de Bourrienne are a work which, for deep interest, excitement, and amusement, can scarcely be paralleled by any of the numerous and excellent memoirs for which the large Napoleonic literature is so justly celebrated. In this book de Bourienne shows us the hero of...

In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs to the public we are bound, as Editors, to say a few Words on the subject. Agreeing, however, with Horace Walpole that an editor should not dwell for any length of time on the merits of his author, we shall touch but lightly on this part...

This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents   CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION NOTE VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 VOLUME II. — 1800-1805 VOLUME III. — 1805-1814 VOLUME IV. — 1814-1821 About the Author De Bourrienne was Bonaparte's secretary.

When Marmont left Paris on the receipt of the intelligence from Essonne, Marshals Macdonald and Ney and the Duke of Vicenza waited upon the Emperor Alexander to learn his resolution before he could have been informed of the movement of Marmont's troops. I myself went during the morning to the hotel of...

Difficulties of a new Government— State of Europe— Bonaparte's wish for peace— M. de Talleyrand Minister for Foreign Affairs— Negotiations with England and Austria— Their failure— Bonaparte's views on the East— His sacrifices to policy— General Bonaparte denounced to the First Consul—...

The castle of Diernstein— Richard Coeur de Lion and Marshal Lannes, — The Emperor at the gates of Vienna— The Archduchess Maria Louisa— Facility of correspondence with England— Smuggling in Hamburg— Brown sugar and sand— Hearses filled with sugar and coffee— Embargo on the publication...

Riots in Hamburg and Lubeck— Attempted suicide of M. Konning— Evacuation of Hamburg— Dissatisfaction at the conduct of General St. Cyr— The Cabinets of Vienna and the Tuileries— First appearance of the Cossacks— Colonel Tettenborn invited to occupy Hamburg— Cordial reception of the Russians—...

Abuse of military power— Defence of diplomatic rights— Marshal Brune — Army supplies— English cloth and leather— Arrest on a charge of libel— Dispatch from M. Talleyrand— A page of Napoleon's glory— Interview between the two Emperors at Tilsit, — Silesia restored to the Queen of Prussia—...

My departure from Hamburg-The King at St. Denis— Fouche appointed Minister of the Police— Delay of the King's entrance into Paris— Effect of that delay— Fouche's nomination due to the Duke of Wellington— Impossibility of resuming my post— Fouche's language with respect to the Bourbons—...