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. Houssaye,
1814
, pp. 24–5.
 
133
. Branda,
Le prix de la gloire
, p. 387.
 

23: The Naked Emperor

1
.
For the following see F. Loraine Petre,
Napoleon at Bay, 1814
(London, 1914); Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, pp. 945–1004; Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
; Ashby,
Napoleon against Great Odds
, pp. 87–122.
2
.
Cited in Maurice Guerrini,
Napoléon et Paris, trente ans d’histoire
(Paris, 1967), p. 435.
3
.
Fontaine,
Journal
, i. p. 384 (24 January 1814).
4
.
AN F7 3733, Minutes des bulletins de police, 14 July 1814.
5
.
Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, p. 952.
6
.
Maurice Henri Weil,
La campagne de 1814 d’après les documents des archives impériales et royales de la guerre à Vienne
, 4 vols (Paris, 1891–5), i. p. 493.
7
.
Charles Nicolas Fabvier,
Journal des opérations du 6e corps pendant la campagne de France en 1814
(Paris, 1819), p. 29; Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
, pp. 51–2.
8
.
For this and other motives behind Alexander’s decision see Schroeder,
Transformation of European Politics
, p. 497.
9
.
Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. pp. 296–7.
10
.
Lucas-Dubreton,
Murat
, pp. 222–5.
11
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21239 (13 February 1814).
12
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21227 (9 February 1814).
13
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21231 (11 February 1814).
14
.
Webster,
The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh
, i. pp. 218–19; John Bew,
Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny
(London, 2011), pp. 343–5.
15
.
Houssaye,
1814
, pp. 35–6.
16
.
Gotteri (ed.),
La police secrète
, vii. pp. 678, 700, 727, 801 (5, 12, 21 February and 16 March 1814).
17
.
Cambacérès,
Lettres inédites à Napoléon
, ii. pp. 1130–1 (11 March 1814).
18
.
Lentz,
Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire
, ii. p. 554.
19
.
Pierrelongue (ed.),
Napoléon et Marie-Louise
, p. 172 (10 February 1814).
20
.
Houssaye,
1814
, pp. 36–7.
21
.
Castellane,
Journal
, i. p. 246; Houssaye,
1814
, pp. 32–3; Roger Dupuy,
La Garde nationale, 1789–1872
(Paris, 2010), pp. 336–7.
22
.
The
Gazette de France
, 10 March 1814, announced that the enemy had been ‘repelled’ with ‘considerable losses’ along the whole line.
23
.
Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
, p. 90.
24
.
Sked,
Radetzky
, p. 65.
25
.
Bew,
Castlereagh
, pp. 345–6, 347.
26
.
Fain,
Manuscrit de mil huit cent-quatorze
, p. 191; Ségur,
Histoire et mémoires
, vii. pp. 49–50, claims that the horse was only wounded; Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, p. 997; Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
, p. 105.
27
.
Pierrelongue (ed.),
Napoléon et Marie-Louise
, pp. 261–2 (23 March 1814).
28
.
Savary,
Mémoires
, vi. pp. 329–31.
29
.
Muir,
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon
, pp. 304, 322.
30
.
Webster (ed.),
British Diplomacy
, pp. 173–4 (30 March 1814).
31
.
Lieven,
Russia against Napoleon
, pp. 507–8.
32
.
Webster,
The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh
, i. p. 243.
33
.
Beauchamp,
Histoire des campagnes de 1814 et de 1815
, i. p. 603.
34
.
On the battle for Paris see Houssaye,
1814
, pp. 487–539; Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
, pp. 113–19.
35
.
Uffindell,
Napoleon 1814
, pp. 32–4.
36
.
The following is based on Rémusat,
Mémoires de ma vie
, i. p. 137; Reinhard,
Une femme de diplomate
, p. 393 (27 March 1814); Marie-Anne de Chateaubriand, comtesse de Marigny,
Paris en 1814: journal inédit de madame de Marigny
(Paris, 1907), p. 48 (28 March 1814).
37
.
Pierre de Pelleport,
Souvenirs militaires et intimes du général Vte de Pelleport, de 1793 à 1853
, 2 vols (Paris, 1857), ii. pp. 116–17.
38
.
Thomas Richard Underwood,
A Narrative of Memorable Events in Paris, Preceeding the Capitulation, and During the Occupancy of that City by the Allied Armies, in the Year 1814
(London, 1828), p. 53.
39
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21210 (8 February 1814).
40
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21497 (16 March 1814).
41
.
Corr.
xxvii. n. 21467 (12 March 1814).
42
.
Savary,
Mémoires
, vi. p. 378.
43
.
Lucien Floriet,
Marmont: maréchal d’Empire, 1774–1852
(Marcilly-sur-Tille, 1996), pp. 179–95.
44
.
Marmont,
Mémoires
, vi. pp. 244–63. Few memoirists, such as Thirion,
Souvenirs militaires
, pp. 173–84, came to his defence.
45
.
As an English tourist in France in 1814 testifies. See Edward Stanley,
Before and after Waterloo: Letters from Edward Stanley, Sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802, 1814, 1816)
(London, 1907), p. 106.
46
.
Emmanuel de Waresquiel,
Les Cents Jours: la tentation de l’impossible, mars–juillet 1815
(Paris, 2008), pp. 216–17, 218–19.

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