Citizen Emperor (156 page)

 
147
. According to Rey,
Alexandre Ier
, p. 220.

 
148
. Kagan,
The End of the Old Order
, pp. 626–7. There is no account of this meeting.

 
149
. Even before Austerlitz, Czartoryski and Novosiltsev complained of Alexander’s depression and uncertainty. Zawadzki, ‘Czartoryski and Napoleonic France’, 275–6.

 
150
. Thiard,
Souvenirs diplomatiques et militaires
, pp. 242–5; Victor Bibl,
François II: le beau-père de Napoléon, 1768–1835
, trans. from the German by Adrien F. Vochelle (Paris, 1936), p. 128; Duffy,
Austerlitz
, pp. 152–4.

 
151
. Eynard,
Journal
, i. p. 45.

 
152
. Even then, it was initially reported as a French victory. Burrows, ‘The War of Words’, p. 51.

 
153
. ‘Austerlitz (Lettres de deux témoins de la bataille)’,
Carnet de la Sabretache
, 4 (1905), 733.

 
154
. Pierre Glaudes, ‘Joseph de Maistre, letter writer’, in Carolina Armenteros and Richard A. Lebrun (eds),
The New
enfant du siècle
: Joseph de Maistre as a Writer
(St Andrews, 2010), pp. 54–5, hdl.handle.net/10023/847.

 
155
. It may be apocryphal. See Ehrman,
The Younger Pitt
, iii. p. 882.

 
156
. Lanzac de Laborie,
Paris sous Napoléon
, iii. pp. 48–9, whose assertion is somewhat contradicted by the police reports in AN F7 3834, 20 and 24, 25 and 29 frimaire an XIV (11 and 15, 16 and 20 December 1804), but police reports often exaggerated positive reactions and played down negative ones.

 
157
. AN F/1cIII/Aisne 12, the prefect of the Aisne to the minister of the interior, 3 January 1806.

 
158
. See, for example, Fiévée,
Correspondance
, ii. pp. 164–7.

 
159
. Lanzac de Laborie,
Paris sous Napoléon
, iii. p. 48.

 
160
. Fiévée,
Correspondance
, ii. p. 166; Lanzac de Laborie,
Paris sous Napoléon
, iii. p. 50. More elaborate plans to celebrate the victory never actually came off. A large concentration of troops was established at Meudon, from where they were supposed to enter Paris, but the troops had to be deployed in eastern Europe (see
Corr.
xii. n. 9832 (17 February 1806); Lanzac de Laborie,
Paris sous Napoléon
, iii. pp. 57–9).

 
161
. M. Siret,
Discours prononcé dans l’église paroissiale de Saint Merry, le dimanche 29 décembre dernier, à l’occasion du Te Deum chanté en actions de graces de la victoire d’Austerlitz
(Paris, 1806), p. 1. For the following theme see also Bertaud,
Quand les enfants parlaient de gloire
, pp. 225–7; Jean-Pierre
Bertho, ‘Naissance et élaboration d’une théologie de la guerre chez les évêques de Napoléon (1802–1820)’, in Jean-René Derré, Jacques Gadille, Xavier de Montclos and Bernard Plongeron (eds),
Civilisation chrétienne: approche historique d’une idéologie, XVIIIe–XXe siècle
(Paris, 1975), pp. 95–103.

 
162
. AN AFIV 1045, Correspondance du ministre des cultes, 1 January 1806.

 
163
. AN AFIV 1452, doss. 2.

 
164
. Rémusat,
Mémoires de ma vie
, i. p. 52.

 
165
. John A. Lynn,
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture from Ancient Greece to Modern America
(Cambridge, Mass., 2003), pp. 180–1.

 
166
. This has been pointed out by Alistair Horne,
How Far from Austerlitz?
, pp. 186–9, who argues that Austerlitz led Napoleon on a grail-like quest for similar victories which almost always eluded him.

 
167
. Peter Paret, ‘Napoleon as Enemy’, in Peter Paret,
Understanding War: Essays on Clausewitz and the History of Military Power
(Princeton, 1992), p. 77.

 
168
. 
Corr.
xi. n. 9069 (13 August 1805).

 
169
. Bertrand (ed.),
Lettres inédites
, pp. 156–65 (17 October 1805).

 
170
. Schroeder,
Transformation of European Politics
, pp. 276–82, 302–4.

 
171
. 
Corr.
xi. n. 9561 (13 December 1805).

 
172
. On the treaty see Rudolfine Freiin von Oer,
Der Friede von Pressburg: ein Beitrag zur Diplomatiegeschichte des Napoleonischen Zeitalters
(Münster, 1965), esp. pp. 184–221.

 
173
. Kagan,
The End of the Old Order
, p. 633.

 
174
. 
Corr.
xi. nos. 9540, 9542 (3 and 4 December 1805).

 
175
. Jean-Pierre Bois,
De la paix des rois à l’ordre des empereurs, 1714–1815
(Paris, 2003), p. 348.

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