Authors: Philip Dwyer
34 . | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington , 15 vols (London, 1858–72), ix. pp. 268–72 and 275–6 (17 and 20 September 1814). |
35 . | Chastenay, Mémoires , ii. pp. 461–4; Stephen Coote, Napoleon and the Hundred Days (London, 2004), p. 114. |
36 . | See, for example, Hyde de Neuville, Mémoires et souvenirs (1890), ii. pp. 16–36; Iung (ed.), Lucien Bonaparte , iii. pp. 210–12. |
37 . | MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , pp. 141–2. |
38 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , p. 300. |
39 . | MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , p. 143. |
40 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , p. 317; Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, Earl of Kerry (ed.), The First Napoleon: Some Unpublished Documents from the Bowood Papers (London, 1925), pp. 80–105. Other British visitors to Elba who left accounts include: George Venables Vernon, Sketch of a Conversation with Napoleon at Elba (London, 1863–4); Hugh Fortescue Viscount Ebrington, Memorandum of Two Conversations between the Emperor Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington at Porto-Ferrajo on the 6th and 8th of December 1814 (London, 1823); Ralph A. Griffiths (ed.), In Conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte: J. H. Vivian’s Visit to the Island of Elba (Newport, 2008). Others are in John Goldworth Alger, Napoleon’s British Visitors and Captives 1801–1815 (Westminster, 1904); and Katharine MacDonogh, ‘A Sympathetic Ear: Napoleon, Elba and the British’, History Today , 44:2 (1994), 29–35. |
41 . | Saint-Denis, Souvenirs du Mameluck Ali , p. 68; Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 49–51. |
42 . | Cited in MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , p. 154. Also Baylac, Napoléon , pp. 251–5. |
43 . | Letter from Pauline to Letizia cited in Masson, Napoléon et sa famille , x. p. 328 (25 June 1814). |
44 . | Oman, Napoleon’s Viceroy , pp. 406–21; Bernardy, Eugène de Beauharnais , pp. 451–509. |
45 . | Boudon, Le roi Jérôme , pp. 417–23. |
46 . | Masson, Napoléon et sa famille , x. pp. 292–8. |
47 . | Masson, Napoléon et sa famille , x. pp. 221–5; A. Hilliard Atteridge, Napoleon’s Brothers (London, 1909), p. 420; Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 72–3. |
48 . | Marchand, Mémoires , pp. 124–5. |
49 . | Hantraye, Les cosaques aux Champs-Elysées , p. 233. |
50 . | Constant, Mémoires , vi. p. 92. |
51 . | Pélissier, Le registre de l’île d’Elbe , pp. 64–5 (27 July 1814); Sutherland, Marie Walewska , pp. 213–14, 219–22. |
52 . | On this episode see MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , pp. 126–30; Baylac, Napoléon , pp. 169–72. |
53 . | Saint-Denis, Souvenirs du Mameluck Ali , pp. 84–6. |
54 . | MacKenzie, Escape from Elba , p. 130; Baylac, Napoléon , p. 162. |
55 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , p. 175. |
56 . | Palmstierna (ed.), Marie-Louise et Napoléon , p. 272. |
57 . | Mme de Montesquiou, for one, told him as much in April 1814. See Palmstierna (ed.), Marie-Louise et Napoléon , pp. 249–50. |
58 . | Something that she suspected. See Palmstierna (ed.), Marie-Louise et Napoléon , pp. 258–9 (5 June 1814). |
59 . | Méneval, Napoléon et Marie-Louise , ii. pp. 277–89. |
60 . | Palmstierna (ed.), Marie-Louise et Napoléon , pp. 260–1 (22 June 1814). |
61 . | Welvert, Napoléon et la police , pp. 116–17 (8 August 1814). |
62 . | Houssaye, 1815 , i. pp. 161–4; Masson, L’impératrice Marie-Louise , pp. 602–5. |
63 . | Fournier, Marie-Louise et la chute de Napoléon , pp. 10–11. |
64 . | Schiel, Marie-Louise , pp. 224–5. |
65 . | Méneval, Mémoires , iii. pp. 341–2. |
66 . | Méneval, Mémoires , iii. p. 344. |
67 . | Marie-Louise to Francis (July, 3 August 1814), cited in Schiel, Marie-Louise , p. 225. |
68 . | Méneval, Mémoires , iii. p. 347. |
69 . | Méneval, Mémoires , iii. p. 349. Napoleon celebrated the feast of St Napoleon with as much pomp as he could muster (Pons, Souvenirs et anecdotes , pp. 231–3; Marchand, Mémoires , p. 129. |
70 . | Alan Palmer, Napoleon & Marie Louise: The Emperor’s Second Wife (London, 2001), pp. 186–7; Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 154–9. |
71 . | Marie-Louise to Francis, 30 September 1814, Fournier, Marie-Louise et la chute de Napoléon , p. 17. |
72 . | It is possible that Napoleon was aware of their liaison. See Godlewski, Napoléon à l’île d’Elbe , pp. 171–4. |
73 . | Méneval, Mémoires , iii. pp. 421–2. |
74 . | Palmstierna (ed.), Marie-Louise et Napoléon , pp. 276–7 (3 January 1815). |
75 . | Maurice-Henri Weil, Les dessous du Congrès de Vienne: d’après les documents originaux des archives du Ministère impérial et royal de l’intérieur à Vienne , 2 vols (Paris, 1917), i. p. 634 (3 December 1814); ii. p. 73 (23 January 1815). |
76 . | Campbell, Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba , pp. 271, 277. |