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EBOOK MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON ***


Produced by David Widger


THE PROJECT GUTENBERG MEMOIRS OF NAPLEON
By BOURRIENNE, CONSTANT and STEWARTON

1.
MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE
His Private Secretary
Edited by R. W. Phipps
Colonel, Late Royal Artillery
2.
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, Complete
By CONSTANT
PREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRE
TRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK
3.
MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD
BY STEWARTON
BEING SECRET LETTERS FROM A GENTLEMAN AT PARIS TO A NOBLEMAN IN LONDON



MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE
His Private Secretary
Edited by R. W. Phipps
Colonel, Late Royal Artillery
1891


PREFACE
BY THE EDITORS OF THE 1836 EDITION.
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 of the matter. We are the more ready to abstain
since the great success in England of the former editions of these
Memoirs, and the high reputation they have acquired on the European
Continent, and in every part of the civilised world where the fame of
Bonaparte has ever reached, sufficiently establish the merits of M. de
Bourrienne as a biographer.
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