Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknow be re-established. My determination is taken; I have no doubt of this note coming to your hands. I do not repeat what I have already told you. I then complained of my situation; I now rejoice at it. My mind and attention are relieved from an enormous weight; my downfall is great, but it is at least said to be productive of good. In my retreat I intend to substitute the pen for the sword. The history of my reign will gratify the cravings of curiosity. Hitherto, I have only been seen in profile; I will now show myself in full to the world. What facts have I not to disclose! how many men are incorrectly estimated! I have heaped favours upon a countless number of wretches; what have they latterly done for me? They have all betrayed me, one and all, save and except the excellent Eugène, so worthy of you and of me. May he ever enjoy happiness under a sovereign fully competent to appreciate the feelings of nature and of honour! Adieu, my dear Josephine; follow my example and be resigned. Never dismiss from your recollection one who has never forgotten, and never will forget you! Farewell, Josephine. NAPOLEON. _P.S._--I expect to hear from you when I shall have reached the island of Elba. I am far from being in good health. FOOTNOTES [94] _Memoires et Correspondance de l'Impératrice Joséphine_, par _J. B. J. Innocert Philadelphe Regnault Varin_. Paris, 1820, 8^o. This book is not in the British Museum Catalogue. [95] _Josephine Impératrice et Reine_, Paris, 1899. INDEX OF PERSONS _Excluding_ NAPOLEON _and_ JOSEPHINE, _which occur on nearly every page_. Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 49 Abrantès, Mdme. Junot, Duchesse d', 190, 199, 229, 230, 231, 242, 247, 254, 261, 265, 266, 278, 312 Achille. (_See_ Murat) Agrippina, 312 Ainger, Canon, 298 Albufera, Duke of. (_See_ Suchet) Aldobrandini, Prince, 149 Alexander the Great, 185 Alison, Sir A. (historian), 74, 119, 255, 264, 272, 286 Alvinzi, Marshal, 30, 34, 35, 218, 221, 318 Amand, Saint, _see_ S. Imbert de (author), 4, 172, 199, 212, 221, 223, 243, 245, 251, 256, 257, 267, 269, 302, 304, 307, 308, 312 Amelia (daughter of Eugène), 313 Angoulême, Duc d', 190, 196, 197 Anhalt, Prince of, 270 Arberg, Mdme. d', 176 Arch-Chancellor. (_See_ Cambacérès) Argenteau, D', 9 Arnault (author), 212 Artois, Comte d', 196, 197 Aubenas, 172, 200, 201, 216, 225, 226, 228, 241, 257, 259, 260, 297, 299 Audenarde, D', 162, 302 ---- Madame Lalaing, Viscountess d', 302, 307 Augereau, Marshal, 24, 38, 57, 70, 90, 154, 196, 214, 254, 255, 267 Auguié, Mlle. Aglaé Louise, 231 Auguste, Princess of Bavaria (then wife of Eugène). (_See_ Beauharnais, Auguste) Augustus, Emperor, 52, 228 Austria, Emperor of, 186, 197, 218, 223, 240 ---- Empress of, 186 Avrillon, Mlle, d', 82, 174, 225, 233, 256, 297, 299, 302, 305, 311, 312 Baccioli, Eliza (Bonaparte), 63, 122 Baden, Princess Wilhelmina of, 77, 236, 295 ---- Grand Duchess of. (_See_ Beauharnais, Stephanie) ---- Prince of, 242, 243, 245, 270 Bagration, General, 187, 188 Baird, General Sir David, 42, 49, 143 Bajazet, 272 Barante, De (Prefect of Geneva), 309, 310 Barbier (Napoleon's librarian), 307 Barras, Count de, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 38, 199, 205, 207, 221, 247, 248 Bathurst, Benj., 154 Bausset (Prefect of Imperial Palace), 267, 269, 273 Bavaria, Elector, then King of, 77, 122, 144, 159, 161, 242, 243, 265, 266, 270, 299 ---- Electress, then Queen of, 70, 161, 243, 265 ---- Prince Royal of, 281 Bayard, Chevalier, 235, 243 Beauharnais, Eugène (Viceroy of Italy), 6, 21, 31, 44, 51, 58, 59, 60, 63, 66, 68, 78, 106, 121, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, 159, 162, 164, 170, 171, 172, 179, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 216, 224, 228, 229, 234, 242, 243, 244, 254, 256, 264, 265, 266, 276, 277, 282, 286, 287, 290, 297, 299, 305, 308, 310, 311, 312, 313, 318, 320, 321 Beauharnais, Auguste (wife of Eugène), 121, 186, 242, 264, 265, 266, 299 ---- Hortense, 6, 10, 11, 12, 31, 44, 50, 51, 52, 53, 59, 66, 68, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89, 90, 93, 111, 112, 113, 127, 137, 140, 144, 147, 149, 150, 151, 159, 160, 165, 172, 173, 175, 176, 180, 216, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 235, 237, 244, 247, 254, 259, 261, 262, 263, 268, 269, 288, 289, 296, 300, 308, 313, 314 ---- Stephanie, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89, 242, 243, 244, 254, 271, 295 ---- Fanny (daughter of Count), 243 Beaujon (financier), 302 Beaulieu, General, 6, 7, 10, 11, 38, 204, 205, 208, 209 Becker, General, 81 Bellegarde, General, 49, 195, 197 Bennigsen or Beningsen, General, 90, 188, 193, 254 Bentinck, General, 193 Bentley, 227 Berg, Napoleon Louis, Grand Duke of, 82, 137, 144, 147, 148, 150, 172, 173, 263, 308 Bernadotte, Marshal, 38, 41, 57, 80, 81, 83, 95, 106, 113, 174, 185, 188, 192, 193, 246, 254, 255, 257, 279, 291, 292 ---- Desirée (_née_ Clary), 38, 246, 313 Berthier, Marshal, 33, 57, 141, 214, 224, 229, 246, 251, 259, 265, 270, 280, 292, 302, 303 Bertrand, General, 259, 287, 288, 290 Bessières, Marshal, 57, 106, 128, 136, 139, 149, 165, 190, 260, 290, 303 Bignon, Baron (historian), 55, 75, 255, 258, 262 Billington, Mistress, 224 Bingham, Captain D. A., 204, 208, 256 Blake (Field-Marshal and Spanish General), 135, 136, 148, 181 Blucher, Field-Marshal, 83, 192, 193, 194, 195, 246, 250, 278, 291 Bonaparte, Joseph (King of Spain), 21, 38, 77, 128, 143, 150, 187, 191, 196, 199, 200, 201, 228, 237, 258, 265, 266, 273, 296, 305 ---- Louis, 50, 53, 59, 77, 172, 173, 214, 220, 228, 261, 263, 268, 269, 279, 300, 302, 308, 309, 314 ---- Jerome (King of Westphalia), 117 118, 160, 161, 242, 261, 270, 301 ---- Lucien, 228, 229, 230, 247, 253, 265, 266, 297, 314 ---- Caroline. (_See_ Murat, Madame) ---- Eliza. (_See_ Lucca, Princess of) Bonaparte Family, The, 317. (Appendix 2) Bonpland, Aimé, 226 Borghèse, Prince, 99, 115 ---- Pauline, 99, 303 Boubers, Countess de, 308 Bouillet (lexicographer), 74, 248 Bouillon, Duke of, 304 Bourbon, Duchesse de, 302 Bourlier, Bishop of Evreux, 311 Bourrienne, L. de, 30, 31, 61, 155, 226, 228, 229, 230, 237, 239 Boyer (French general, "Pierre le Cruel"), 196 Brizzi, 89 Brock, General, 187 Brotonne, L. de, 190, 238, 260, 310 Browning, Oscar, 47 Bruix, Admiral, 232 Brune, Marshal, 34, 41, 43, 49, 57, 118, 221 Brunswick, Duke of, 245 Brutus, 294 Bulow, General von, 192, 194, 196 Burdett-Coutts, Mr., 218 Burke, Edmund, 38 Buxhowden, General, 72, 90 Byron, Lord, 183, 314 "B----" (probably Bourrienne), 60, 175 Cabarrus, M. de, 248 Cadoudal, Georges (Vendéen chief and conspirator), 57 Cæsar, Julius, 232, 281, 286, 293 Calder, Sir Robert, 63 Cambacérès, Arch-Chancellor, 108, 114, 150, 188, 192, 236, 269, 271, 281, 284, 291, 292, 293, 296, 300, 302, 303, 310 Campan, Madame, 191, 242 Caracci, 209 Carnot (member of the Directory and "organiser of victory |