Epigraph
316. Appendix (1).—Reputed Poem by Napoleon. 317. Appendix (2).—Genealogy of the Bonaparte Family. 317-321. Appendix (3).—Spurious Letters of Napoleon to Josephine.
Napoleon’s Letters
Series A
(1796)
“Only those who knew Napoleon in the intercourse of private life can render justice to his character. For my own part, I know him, as it were, by heart; and in proportion as time separates us, he appears to me like a beautiful dream. And would you believe that, in my recollections of Napoleon, that which seems to me to approach most nearly to ideal excellence is not the hero, filling the world with his gigantic fame, but the man, viewed in the relations of private life?”—Recollections of Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza, vol. i. 197.
Series A
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 198-211.)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief | 198 | |
| No. 1. | 7 a.m. | 198 |
| No. 2. | Our good Ossian | 199 |
| No. 4. | Chauvet is dead | 199 |
| No. 5. | Napoleon’s suspicions | 199 |
| The lovers of nineteen | 200 | |
| My brother | 200 | |
| No. 6. | Unalterably good | 201 |
| If you want a place for any one | 201 | |
| No. 7. | A criticism by Aubenas | 201 |
| June 15th | 204 | |
| Presentiment of ill | 210 | |
| No. 8. | The Treaty with Rome | 210 |
| Fortuné | 211 |
1796.
February 23rd.—Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy.