of Napoleon. Five English surgeons, three English army officers, and
the three Frenchmen, surround the extemporized post-mortem table,
where Antommarchi is performing the autopsy. The Corsican doctor has
removed the liver and incised it. He holds up the organ for the others’
inspection, and demonstrates, as if to a class of students. “You see,
gentlemen, how this ulcerated part of the stomach has become adherent
to the liver. What are we to infer? That the climate of St. Helena
has intensified the gastric disorder, and has thus brought about the
Emperor’s premature death.”
A vote is taken: England against France. The majority declare the viscera
to be healthy, while the Corsican is ostentatiously thrusting his finger
through the perforated wall of the stomach. Medical report.
The Emperor’s body was embalmed, and at the lying-in-state was covered
with the gold-embroidered cloak of Marengo. The whole garrison, by its
own wish, marched past. All who saw the body testify to the calm and
serenity of the features. In mysterious fashion, his face, which, since
the days of the coronation, had tended to assume the robust maturity of
the Roman emperors, had now returned to the delicacy of youth.
The British authorities refused to allow the shipment to Europe. The
grave was dug in a secluded valley, beside a spring shaded by two weeping
willows. He was accorded the honours of a British general; salvos of
artillery and musketry were fired over the grave, what time there
fluttered in the breeze the colours on which were emblazoned the names of
the English victories in Spain. The governor was present, and declared
that he had forgiven the Emperor.
Six stone slabs from gun emplacements cover the tomb. A seventh was
needed for the artillery officer’s grave; but, since it was not available
at the moment, three glazed tiles were taken from the cooking-stove of a
new house. The governor would not allow the inscription “Napoleon” to be
placed on the tomb, but insisted upon “Napoleon Bonaparte.” There was,
therefore, no inscription. The furniture of Longwood was sold by auction;
the house was bought by a farmer, who turned the place into a mill; the
two rooms in which the Emperor had lived for six years were restored to
their former uses, becoming a byre and a pig-sty.
One thing only did England do in honour of the dead: a sentry was posted
at the grave. For nineteen years, the guard was relieved at the proper
intervals; then the dead Emperor was brought home to Paris.
Without waiting for this, all the others return to Europe. The governor
was publicly horsewhipped in London by Las Cases’ son; he died in
obscurity. Bathurst, who, as Minister for War and Plantations, had been
responsible for the treatment of Napoleon, ultimately killed himself in
an access of melancholia. All England was writing and talking about the
barbarous treatment of the great exile.
The Corsican doctor goes to Italy. Lucien refuses to see him. In Parma,
Marie Louise also shuts her door against him, but he sees her in her box
at the theatre. In Rome, Antommarchi visits Letizia Bonaparte, and for
three days she makes him tell her all his news. He leaves the silver
lamp with her, and sails back to Corsica. Letizia sits by the fireside,
weeping over the fate of her second son, Napolione.
She has still fifteen years to live. She outlives Elise; outlives
Pauline, who dies with a mirror in her hands; outlives several of her
grandchildren, and three popes. She is half paralysed, and has become
blind. But she sits there facing her son’s bust, her spirit unbroken,
mourning her dead.
Like a princess, she welcomes to her palace all those who have remained
faithful to the Emperor. Her servants are the last persons in Europe to
wear his colours; her carriage is the last to bear his escutcheon. She
has news at times from Vienna and her grandson, but the young man is not
allowed to visit her. When he is one-and-twenty, he dies. Now, Marie
Louise writes to her. She does not answer the letter. At last she is told
that she may return home, but she refuses to go, since the same right is
not accorded to her children.
[Illustration: Letter to Countess Walewska]
Nine years after the Emperor’s death, the Bourbon dynasty is overthrown,
and the Orleans monarchy is established. The new king knows how strong
the Bonapartists are, and he orders that the statue of Napoleon, which
fifteen years before had been removed, shall be replaced on the Vendôme
column. When Jerome brings his bed-ridden mother these tidings, she has
a renewal of health and is able to leave her bed. For the first time
after a long interval she makes her way into the drawing-room, and her
blind eyes turn towards the bust. She says in a toneless voice:
“Once again the Emperor is in Paris.”
ENVOY
To write the history of a man, or the history of an epoch, these are two
distinct undertakings, differing both in name and technique. Vain has
been the attempt to combine them. Plutarch renounced the one, and Carlyle
renounced the other; that is why both these masters were able to achieve
their respective tasks. It would be fair to say that Plutarch’s example
has found no imitators; no one, after Plutarch, has made it his specific
task to write the history of great minds upon a strictly historical
foundation.
Such a work does not come within the domain of the historian, seeing that
the search for truth demands other talents than those requisite for the
art of portrayal. Artists have sometimes dramatised historical figures
with a free hand; sometimes they have produced one of those horrible
mishmashes which pass by the name of “historical novel”—of which Goethe,
like Napoleon, said that they confuse everything.
The attempt is especially difficult when, not works, but deeds, are the
milestones along the road of life. Cæsar, Frederick, and Napoleon, only
became great powers through their victories in the battle-field; and yet
their battles tend, more and more, to become unmeaning for posterity.
Nowadays, it is only in military academies that Pharsalia, Rossbach, and
Austerlitz, have a historical significance. Not one of the three great
generals I have named would mean any more to us than Crassus, Seydlitz,
or Masséna, had they, too, been nothing more than military commanders;
it is the political genius of Cæsar, Frederick, and Napoleon, that makes
these men supreme. In his highest embodiment, the statesman shapes all
our destinies. Where genius and character intersect, is the focus for the
searcher of the soul.
In this book, I have tried to write the inner history of Napoleon. Since
his personality finds expression in every step of his political career,
his ideas as founder of States and as legislator, his attitudes towards
revolution and legitimacy, towards the social order and the problem of
Europe—are valuable means of portrayal. Irrelevant was the course of the
battles; irrelevant the contemporary position of the European States,
in so far as this was manifested only in coalitions or antagonisms as
mutable as the weather.
Every difference of opinion with his brothers or his wife, every hour
of gloom or elation, his outbursts of wrath and his accesses of pallor,
tricks or acts of kindness towards friend or foe, every word to his
generals or to women (as reported in letters or authentic conversations),
seemed more important than the order of battle at Marengo, the items of
the peace of Lunéville, or the details of the Continental System. What
we have all learned about him at school and the university has here been
restricted to a minimum; but there has been a broad demonstration of the
things that are lacking amid such everyday knowledge. Yet we have not
been concerned only with that Napoleon intime who is so favourite a topic
with French writers; but, rather, with the Napoleonic figure as a whole,
in public career and in private life, as representative of all mankind.
Affairs of State and love affairs that happened on the same day, have
been referred to on the same page: they derive from the same source; they
determine one another; and a study of the imbroglio of the human heart
will often give us more information concerning great plans than all the
calculations of the tactician.
Napoleon’s personality, which has no more to do with the nation for which
or against which he was fighting than it has to do with morality, has
not been treated here as miraculous, nor yet as split up into abstract
concepts. In the episodes of his life I have tried to grasp the innermost
moods (of which his rise was a natural and logical outcome), and to trace
his movement towards the climax of St. Helena. To examine this man’s
inner life; to explain his resolves and his refrainings, his deeds and
his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the
moods of his heart—the disclosure of this _great chain of affects_, was
at once the means and the end of the portrayal.
That is why there was no place in my record for portraits of the
generals. Nothing could be admitted to this one volume which did not
throw light upon the history of the one interior.
If we wish to give a picture of a life so full as this man’s, we must
perforce follow his tempo; the writer, therefore, is bound to the words
of the person being described, and can never let that person speak too
much. For, in truth, a man always explains himself better than any one
else can do it for him; even when he is mistaken, or when he is lying,
he reveals himself to those who come afterwards, to those who know the
truth. But the author must forget that he, too, knows the end. Only if,
from moment to moment, he describes the feelings as they must have been
experienced by one without foresight into the completed destiny, will he
be able to generate that tension which, in actual life, made the sequence
of events vibrant with passion.
Thus with his own sympathy, he forces the heart of the man to reveal its
sympathy. In the present work, the spirit of dispassionate analysis is
shown once only, towards the end. We cannot study the motor engine till
it stops running.
Such a portrayal, which brings us into close proximity with its object,
may give the impression of being a work of pure fancy. If, by its method
of treatment, it is to be sharply differentiated from an imaginative
creation, it must throughout cling to the framework of historical truth.
One who believes that there is a logical succession of happenings in
which there is no room for chance, will guard against retouching any
detail; he will never bend a date or an incident to fit a preconceived
purpose, even though, for stylistic purposes, he may think fit at times
to leave one or the other unmentioned.
In this book, all the data are recorded facts, except the soliloquies.
To it there might well be applied Goethe’s judgment upon Bourrienne’s
_Memoirs_: “All the nimbus, all the illusion, with which journalists
and historians and poets have surrounded Napoleon, vanishes before
the awe-inspiring realism of this book: but the hero is by no means
diminished thereby; he grows. We learn from this what a splendid thing
truth is, when any one has the courage to speak it.” Napoleon’s life is a
great epic, written by the hand of fate; its full meaning will not reveal
itself to one who gives rein to imagination, but only to him who gives
himself up to the amor fati.
Thus, likewise, for the reader of these pages should be reconstructed
the tragedy which once only in a millennium a mortal man has created out
of his life. What a man can attain through self-confidence and courage,
through passion and imagination, through industry and will, he attained.
To-day, in the age of the revolutions which once again are opening every
path to the man of supreme ability, the ardent youth of Europe can find
as an example and a warning no greater man than the one who, of all men
of the West, made and suffered the most violent commotions.
AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author wishes to thank Monsieur Edouard Driault, editor of the “Revue
des Etudes Napoléoniennes,” Versailles, and Herr F. M. Kircheisen, for
kindly help in supplying material for the illustrations; and to make due
acknowledgments to Professor Pariset of Strasburg and Herr Kurt Wildhagen
of Heidelberg, for advice during the preparation of the book.
INDEX
Abdication. _See_ Demand, He drafts and He signs
Aboukir, 131, 135, 232, 240
Bay, 126, 135
Academy, 6
on Board, 119
Achilles, 598
ACHMED, 131
Acknowledgement of Democracy, 513
Acre, 132, 133, 134, 135, 242, 265, 397, 574
Adaptation to Circumstances, 574
Adda, 66, 113
Additional Act, 514, 517, 518, 519
Adige, 70, 77
Admiral. _See_ Emperor and Admiral
Admiralty, 372
ADOLPHUS. _See_ GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS
Adrianople, 133
Adriatic, 90
Advancement of Relatives, 224
Adventurer once more, 419
ÆNEID, 655
ÆSCHYLUS, 607, 622
ÆSOP, 629
A-flicker with Excitement, 384
Africa, 11, 117, 232, 528
Again attacked, 237
Against the Grain, 157
Again Unity of Command, 82
_Agamemnon_, 622
Aix, 140, 479, 497
Aix-la-Chapelle, 238, 631
Aim. _See_ True
Ajaccio, 18, 24, 27, 139, 251, 481, 485, 673
Alarm. _See_ Emperor’s
Aleppo, 133, 574
Alessandria, 72
ALEXANDER THE GREAT (of Macedon), 11, 115, 117, 119, 121, 127, 229,
232, 238, 242, 259, 324, 359, 361, 370, 565, 653
ALEXANDER I, Tsar of Russia, 232, 240, 252, 253, 270, 271, 292, 308,
311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 320, 334, 373, 374, 375, 376,
378, 385, 386, 391, 397, 406, 409, 411, 433, 437, 443, 467, 604.
_See also_ TSAR ALEXANDER, _also_ What is ALEXANDER Thinking?
as Prototype, 11
ALEXANDRINE, 571
Allah is Allah, 122
Alliance, La Belle, 523
All young France is ready, 472
Alps, 40, 55, 63, 179, 289, 455, 497, 650
Alsace, 207
ALVINTZY, 60
America, 109, 171, 473, 530, 533, 537, 632, 634, 635, 643, 645, 655.
_See_ He should, _also_ United States
Ambitions. _See_ BERNADOTTE’S Great
America, Spanish, 632
American Marriage. _See_ JEROME’S
Amours, 202
Amphictyonic League, 595
Amsterdam, 650
Anachronism. _See_ War
Ancients. _See_ Council of Ancients
Ancona, 89, 90, 284
Andalusia, 329
_Andromache_, 460, 637
and Astyanax, 460
An everlasting Disgrace, 542
Anger. _See_ Genuine
Angleterre, Hôtel de l’, in Warsaw, 418
ANGOULÈME, Duchess of, 489
An Idyll renewed, 486
ANNA, Grand Duchess, 349
Annexations, 89
Another Family Council, 348
Ansbach, 252
Antibes, 57, 498
Antiquity. _See_ Heroes of
ANTOINETTE, MARIE, 219
ANTOMMARCHI, 656, 658, 674, 676
ANTONY. _See_ MARK ANTONY
Antwerp, 650
Anxieties. _See_ JOSEPHINE’S
Any Crown You like, 300
APELLES, 565
Apennines, 55, 64, 566
Apollo, Salle, 155
Apostolical Emperor, 370
ARCHAMBAUD, 674
ARCHDUKE CHARLES. _See_ CHARLES
Arcis-sur-Aube, 463, 522
Arcola, 64, 65, 76, 77, 78, 112, 137, 158, 536, 624
ARISTOTLE, 229
Arm the Peasants, 464
Army. _See_ Tatterdemalion
Grand. _See_ Grand Army
in the East, 116
of Italy, 40, 50, 56
of Liberators, 61
of the Interior, 45
of the Rhine, 40, 41, 86, 87, 114, 120
ARNAULT, 93
ARRIAN, 119
Artillery Fire, 532
ARTOIS, Count of (afterwards Charles X), 490, 501, 670
“As General Bonaparte,” 433
Asia, 11, 41, 128, 188, 229, 232, 237, 244, 282
Asia Minor, 11
Asiatic Conquests. _See_ Dreams of
Aside. _See_ Naïve
Aspern-Essling, 337, 341, 419, 522, 567
A Son!, 260
Assassination. _See_ Attempted
Astorga, 331, 363, 377
Asturia, 299
Astyanax, 460, 488
At Headquarters, 92
Athens, 63, 69
Atlantic Fleet, 372
Attacked. _See_ Again
Attempted Assassination, 159
Attempted Rising, 24
Attempt on His Life, 193.
_See also_ I intended
At the masked Ball, 347
ATTILA, 86, 90, 511
Audience of Kings, 309
Auerstädt, 255
AUGEREAU, 60, 75, 81, 92, 101, 114, 133, 448, 462, 463, 468, 510,
647, 660
AUGUSTUS, 194, 228, 272, 566
AURELIAN, 566
Austerlitz, 243, 244, 245, 251, 252, 253, 255, 270, 274, 318, 334,
381, 386, 387, 395, 439, 461, 500, 509, 520, 561, 562, 577, 609,
649, 663, 674, 679.
_See also_ Eve of Austerlitz
Austria, 40, 87, 118, 179, 183, 238, 244, 251, 258, 259, 274, 308,
314, 315, 318, 333, 369, 370, 375, 380, 382, 383, 410, 419, 430,
435, 439, 440, 451, 455, 459, 462, 639
Felix, 369
Auxonne, 14, 56, 662
Avignon, 497
Awaiting the Signature, 473
Azores, 494, 618
Aztecs and Incas, 307
Back Room at Saint-Cloud, 155
Back to Europe, 308
Back to Paris, 525
Baden, 206, 246, 279, 493
Bad News from Spain, 399
Bag of Gold, 153
BAGRATION, 389, 394
Ball. _See_ At the Ball
Ballad. _See_ What a Ballad
Baltic, 273, 420
Banishment, 29
Bank of England, 380
Bank of France, 454
Barbier de Séville, 622
BARCLAY DE TOLLY, 389, 390, 394, 395, 399
BARON VOM STEIN, 406
BARRAS, 38, 43, 44, 47, 50, 80, 109, 115, 142, 146, 147, 152, 153
Bar-sur-Aube, 462
Basle, 38, 511
Bassora, 132
Bastia, 480
Bastille, 16, 217
BATHURST, 676
Battalion, Holy, 242
Battle, Death in. _See_ He seeks
of Jena, 255
of the Nations, 446
BAUDIN, 141
BAUER, 556
BAUSSET, 344
Bautzen, 434, 439, 445
“Messenger,” 445
Bavaria, 127, 183, 241, 246, 279, 334, 430, 446, 493
Bayonne, 308, 312, 650
BEAUHARNAIS. _See_ EUGENE, _also_ HORTENSE, _also_ JOSEPHINE
Vicomte de, 47
BEAULIEU, 60
BEAUMARCHAIS, 622
BEETHOVEN, 231
Belated Blessing, 226
Belgium, 30, 89, 453, 458
Belle Alliance, 523
“Bellerophon,” 537, 538, 539, 540, 541
Benevento, 494
BENJAMIN CONSTANT, 512.
_See also_ CONSTANT
Beresina, 415, 416
Berlin, 256, 257, 258, 274, 290, 308, 334, 400, 405, 445, 446, 651
BERNADOTTE (afterwards CROWN PRINCE, then King, of Sweden), 118, 144,
145, 148, 149, 153, 161, 198, 246, 281, 365, 366, 386, 406, 429,
436, 438, 443, 445, 446, 448, 452, 462, 467, 571, 633
Désirée. _See_ DÉSIRÉE
triumphans, 365
Bernadotte’s Ambitions, 386
Bernard. _See_ Great St. Bernard
BERTHIER (afterwards Prince of Neuchâtel), 60, 72, 81, 92, 100, 120,
148, 149, 219, 246, 256, 335, 336, 351, 368, 388, 398, 411, 461,
462, 464, 468, 471, 473, 474, 495, 510, 555, 557, 575, 587, 647,
668
BERTHOLLET, 120, 129, 138
BERTRAND, 481, 484, 535, 609, 610, 613, 615, 621, 636, 638, 654, 658,
659, 661, 664, 669
Madame, 10, 613, 627
Napoléon, 638
Besançon, 501, 509, 555
BESSIÈRES, 668
Betray. _See_ Old Friends
Bible, 120, 122, 601, 622
Big Guns, 13
BINGHAM, 627
Birchen Staff. _See_ Leaning
Blenheim, 127
Blessing. _See_ Belated
Blindness. _See_ Brotherly Blindness
Blindness to its Dangers, 212
Bloodhound, A, 187
BLÜCHER, 443, 444, 445, 455, 457, 459, 460, 461, 462, 467, 522, 534,
619, 626
Blunder. _See_ Consequences of a
Body of Steel, 548
Bohemia, 447
Bois (de Boulogne), 38
Bologna, 75, 99, 476
BONAPARTE. _See_ As General Monsieur
and Europe, 184
and the Sphinx, 121
Caroline. _See_ CAROLINE
CARLO, 298, 305
Elise. _See_ ELISE
Jerome. _See_ JEROME
Joseph. _See_ JOSEPH
La Pagerie. _See_ JOSEPHINE
Letizia. _See_ LETIZIA
Louis. _See_ LOUIS
Lucien. _See_ LUCIEN
Napoleon Francis. _See_ NAPOLEON FRANCIS
Pauline. _See_ PAULINE
Bon, Cape, 137
“Boney,” 540
Bordeaux, 464, 541, 650
BORGHESE, 199, 200, 485.
_See also_ PAULINE
Born to rule. _See_ Man born to rule
Borodino, 399, 653, 663
Bosnia, 90
Bosphorus, 41, 259, 273, 282
Boulogne, 234, 235, 238, 572, 580
Boulogne, Bois de. _See_ Bois
BOURBON, Duke of, 490
Palais, 529
Bourbons—never!, 469
Bourbons’ Return, 489
BOURRIENNE, 25, 37, 58, 91, 107, 118, 119, 124, 127, 148, 156, 161,
179, 204, 438, 556, 681
Breach between the Brothers, 197
Brescia, 74
Breslau, 268, 425
Brienne, 6, 9, 48, 457, 556, 558, 611
Brieg, 269
Broil with Prussia, 252
Broils. _See_ Family
Brooding Lad, 8
Brother Lucien. _See_ Sire
Brotherly Blindness, 456
Brotherly Hate, 304
Brothers. _See_ Dangerous
Brothers and Sisters, 198
Brothers, The. _See_ Breach between
BRUIX, 234, 235
Brumaire, 528.
_See also_ Eighteenth, _also_ Nineteenth
BRUNSWICK, 253, 255, 408, 576
Brussels, 523
BRUTUS, 64, 85, 149, 343, 560, 629
BRUYÈRE. _See_ La Bruyère
BUBNA, 341, 430, 567
Bucharest, 269
Buenos Ayres, 534
BUFFON, 10
Bulletin from Russia. _See_ Last
BÜLOW, 524
Bukovina, 384
Bureau of Public Opinion, 380, 381
Burgos, 548
Burgundy, 125
BUONAPARTE. _See_ BONAPARTE
Burning Street, 403
But Talleyrand is indispensable, 313
BYRON, 231, 615
Cadets School, 9, 133
Cadiz, 388, 420
CADOUDAL, 438
CÆSAR, 24, 85, 121, 182, 186, 195, 212, 277, 285, 322, 326, 371, 378,
421, 463, 519, 521, 560, 565, 566, 567, 578, 592, 624, 645, 646,
653, 655, 656, 661, 668, 679.
_See also_ Christ
_Cromwell, and Bonaparte_, 195
Cæsar’s Chariot, 519
_Death_, 326
Cæsars, 566
CAGLIOSTRO, 593
Cairo, 121, 122, 131, 132, 135, 136, 185, 264, 267, 286, 396, 476, 605
Cajoleries, 272
Calabria, 633
Calculation, 569
and Imagination, 117
Calculations. _See_ I am the Man and Yearnings
Caldiero, 76
California, 534
CAMBACÉRÈS, 598
CAMILLA, 139
Campaign. _See_ Excitement of
_Campaigns of Napoleon the Great_, 380
CAMPBELL, 479, 504
Campo Formio, 104, 109
Candour to Opponents, 341
Canino, 485
Cannes, 433, 497, 498, 503, 623
CANOVA, 248, 582
CANTILLON, 662
Cape Bon, 137
Cape (of Good Hope), 89, 103, 258, 372, 654
Capets, 414
Capitol, 64, 85, 105
Capri, 566, 613
Capua, 383
Caracas, 534
Care for the Children, 173
CARLO BONAPARTE, 298, 305
CARLYLE, 679
CARNOT, 57, 71, 82, 114, 214, 407, 511, 518, 521, 528, 598, 642
CARNOT’S Advice, 521
CAROLINE BONAPARTE (afterwards wife of MURAT), 198, 224, 247, 260,
266, 352, 364, 428, 429, 451, 475, 485, 632
Carpet, The, 305
Carrée, Fort, 34
Carthage, 10
CASES. _See_ LAS CASES
Cassel, 394, 452
Castiglione, 75, 463
Castille, 331
Catalonia, 312
CATHERINE THE GREAT, 566
Cattaro, 273, 307
COULAINCOURT, 375, 376, 377, 401, 411, 417, 418, 432, 434, 446, 457,
458, 464, 465, 467, 468, 471, 472, 507, 529, 531, 606
Cause. _See_ Espouse my
Cave. _See_ Imagination
Chains. _See_ In Chains, _also_ Strike
Chamber of Deputies, 526, 528.
_See also_ Lower House
Chambers, 153, 186, 195, 455, 496, 511, 517, 519, 525, 526, 527, 528,
529, 530, 634.
_See also_ General
Chambers of Commerce, 176, 379
Chambers take the Initiative, 526
Champaubert, 460
CHAMPAGNY, 311, 343
Champ de Mai, 506, 518, 520
Champion of the Family, 172
Chance. _See_ Circumstances
Chance missed, 235
Channel, 115, 516
Chapelle ardente, 669
Characterisation. _See_ German
Chariot. _See_ Cæsar’s
CHARLEMAGNE, 226, 227, 238, 242, 245, 258, 259, 283, 284, 285, 359,
566
_Charlemagne_, 248
Charleroi, 521, 522
Charles XII, 393
CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 255
CHARLES, Austrian Archduke, 60, 88, 338, 351
CHARLES, Hippolyte, 73, 123.
_See also_ HIPPOLYTE
Charlottenburg, 258
CHATEAUBRIAND, 277, 508, 554, 565, 566
Châtillon, 458, 461, 492
CHÉNIER, 114, 195, 598
Cherbourg, 650
Chess. _See_ Game
Chessplayer, 567
Childlessness. _See_ Tragedy of
Children. _See_ Care, _also_ Name your
China, 11, 652
Chinese Island where there are no Weapons, 581, 582
Christ, 86, 184, 321, 322, 338, 636.
_See also_ Jesus
and Cæsar, 322
Christianity, 319, 322
CIMAROSA, 554
_Cinna_, 591, 622
CIPRIANI, 613, 621, 640
Circumstances and Chance, 604
Cisalpine Republic, 82, 105, 182
CITERNI, 277
City. _See_ Rome, _also_ The Eternal
Civil Code, 170
CLARKE, 80
CLARY. _See_ DÉSIRÉE, _also_ JULIE
Cleaning up the Mess, 176
Clear the Hall, 160
CLEOPATRA, 128
Cleves, 247
Climax of the Scene, 302
CLOVIS, 561
Coblenz, 577
Coburg, 273
Cockade. _See_ Red
Code, Civil, 170
Code Napoléon, 170, 171, 172, 173, 280, 286, 371
Coffee and Sugar, 398
COLLI, 60
Colours. _See_ Kissing
Command. _See_ Again, _also_ Last, _also_ Unity
Commander. _See_ Statesman
Commander of the Forces, 45
Comédie Française, 410
Commercial Warfare, 361
Committee of Public Safety, 40, 42, 47, 561
Companions, 610.
_See also_ Fate
Company at Morfontaine, 452
Comparison with Napoleon, 407
Compiègne, 351, 352
Concerning the Germans, 591
Concordat, 284, 372, 429, 430
CONDÉ, 206, 207, 490, 500
Confederation of the Rhine, 246, 279, 287, 341, 373, 382, 388, 420,
424, 425, 433, 443, 445, 447
Confessions, 214
Confidants conspire, 331
Congress. _See_ Tidings
Conquests. _See_ Dreams and Plans
CONSALVI, 185
Consequences. _See_ Political
Consequences of a Blunder, 208
Consequences of Marmont’s Desertion, 471
Conservatoire, 98
Considerations, 639
Conspiracy, 148
CONSTANT, Benjamin, 195, 511, 512, 514, 517, 527
Constant (Napoleon’s Valet), 267
CONSTANTINE (Roman Emperor), 284
(Russian Grand Duke), 405
Constantinople, 133, 242, 273, 282, 284
Consul, First, 166, 174, 175, 183, 185, 186, 187, 190, 201, 203, 204,
205, 206, 207, 210, 225, 232, 280, 373, 379, 381, 498, 550, 554,
555, 556, 565, 575, 582, 586, 597, 605, 629, 646, 651, 652
for Life, 186, 187, 213
Consuls, 154, 155, 160, 161, 165
Contempt for his Fellows, 583
Content. _See_ Form without
Continent, 109, 114, 116, 183, 214, 244, 246, 248, 258, 282, 361,
367, 524
Continental System, 258, 680
Contradictions of Monarchy, 423
Convention, 26, 27, 28, 31, 33, 35, 42, 43, 44, 45, 658
Conversation. _See_ Memorable
Conversation with Rapp, 508
Conversation with Wieland, 320
Corfu, 89, 90, 103, 473
CORIOLANUS, 23