I don’t wish to forget the volume devoted to La Campagne de France in the indispensable collection of Tranié and Carmignani, republished by Pygmalion. Jean Tranié died when I was writing this novel. I would have appreciated his enlightened opinion once again. In his Montmartre house he had a profusion of objects and books devoted to the Empire, but he viewed his collection with both interest and distance, for he had a good sense of humour.
About the Royalists
Counte de Sémallé, Souvenirs, Alphonse Picard et fils, Paris, 1898.
Indiscrétions 1798-1830, souvenirs tirés du portefeuille d’un fonctionnaire de l’Empire, Dufay, Paris, 1835. These two anonymous volumes are thought to be the memoirs of Count Real, former Chief of Police, collected by his son-in-law Musnier-Desclozeau.
Mme de Chastenay, Mémoires, Perrin, 1987.
Mémoires of the Countess de Boigne, Vol. I, Mercure de France, 1971.
Mémoires of the Duchess d’Abrantès, Vol. 10, Garnier frères (undated).
Chateaubriand, De Buonaparte et des Bourbons, collection Libertés, Pauvert, 1966.
Souvenirs du chancelier Pasquier, Hachette, 1964.
Léonce Peillard, Vie quotidienne à Londres au temps de Nelson et de Wellington, Hachette, 1968.
Maubreuil, Extrait de l’examen de l’Adresse au Congrès et à toutes les puissances de l’Europe, envoyée à Aix-la-Chapelle à tous les souverains, à leurs ambassadeurs, à leurs ministres et aux différents cabinets, relative à l’assassinat de Napoléon et de son fils, attentat ordonné par la Russie, la Prusse et les Bourbons... Düsseldorf, 1820.
G. Lenotre, Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers, third series, Perrin, 1911. Long portrait of the chouan Bruslart.
G. Lenotre, La Révolution par ceux qui l’ont vue, Grasset, 1934, republished in Cahiers rouges. This fifth volume of the ‘Petite Histoire’ includes a portrait of Champcenetz based on the Notes d’un émigré by Pradel de Lamase.
About the Island of Elba
Pons de l’Hérault, Souvenirs et anecdotes de l'île d’Elbe, édition de Léon G. Pélissier, Plon, 1897.
Mémoire de Pons de l’Hérault aux puissances alliées, Paris, Alphonse Picard et fils, 1899.
Paul Gruyer, Napoléon roi de l'île d’Elbe, Perrin, 1947.
Marchand, Mémoires, Vol. I, Plon, 1952.
Baron de Vincent, Mémorial de l'île d’Elbe, published in around 1850 in an unidentified journal.
De l’exil au retour de l'île d’Elbe, contemporary accounts, Teissedre, 2001.
Waldburg-Truchsess, Nouvelle relation de Napoléon de Fontainebleau a l'île d’Elbe, Paris, Panckoucke, 1815 (lengthy extract in Le Consulat et l’Empire by Alfred Fierro, collection Bouquins, chez Laffont, 1998).
La Déportation de Napoléon à l'île d’Elbe, issue II of ‘Toute l’histoire de Napoléon', April 1952. Account by Captain Ussher and diary of Vicomte Charrier-Moissard.
La Vérité sur les Cent Jours, par un citoyen de la Corse, Bruxelles, H. Tarlier, 1825. I took the dialogue in Chapter 5 with the messenger who has come from Portoferraio to meet the Emperor. He himself would have authenticated the text, if I am to believe this note on page 176 in the same book: ‘The messenger recorded this dialogue, at the very moment when he left Napoleon, and showed it, upon his return, to those who had entrusted their dispatches to him. One of them copied it, and when the Emperor was in Paris, he gave it to him. Napoleon read it, was greatly amused, and often said while reading it: That’s it, that’s exactly it.’
A. D. B. Monnier, Une année dans la vie de I’Empereur Napoléon (1814-1815), Paris, Alexis Eymeery, 1815.
Sophie et Anthelme Troussier, La Chevauchée héroïque du retour de l'île d’Elbe, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, 1965.
Pierre de Gumbert, Napoléon de l'île d’Elbe à la citadelle de Sisteron, éditions du Socle, Aix-en-Provence, 1968.
About some of the characters
Comte d’Ornano, Marie Walewska, Hachette, 1938.
A. Augustin-Thierry, Notre Dame des colifichets, Albin-Michel, 1937.
Fleuriot de Langle, La Paolina, soeur de Napoléon, éditions Colbert, Paris, 1946 (terribly like the previous book ...) A. Augustin-Thierry, Madame Mère, Albin-Michel, 1931.
On the subject of the injections that the Emperor administered to himself, Dr Patrick Laburthe provided me with their content, and I am indebted to the Countess de Ségur for the chicken soup that is supposed to cure measles. The final idea of measles, incidentally, belongs to Anatole France: he wanted to use it to conclude a novel on the island of Elba of which he never wrote a single word.
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