The First Napoleon: Some Unpublished Documents from the Bowood Papers

xx, 355 pp. Purple boards. CONTENTS: At Schonbrunn: A Conversation between the Emperor and the Comte de Flahault in October 1809; 1812: Napoleon's Views on Poland - Flahault's Correspondence with His Mother; Napoleon and His Aide-de-Camp: The Cavalry - The Artillery - Orders for Eugene Beauharnais; The Lusigny Negotiations: Flahault's Report to the Emperor (February 1814); Two Letters from Napoleon; The First Abdication: Flahault's Letters from Fontainebleau (April 1814); The Sovereign of Elba: A Conversation between Napoleon and Two English Members of Parliament (December 1814); The Hundred Days: Flahault in Charge of Personnel: Letter from the Emperor (April 18) - Napoleon and the Tenth Regiment (May 14) - Flahault becomes a Peer of France: Letter from Napoleon (June 2) - The First Day's Fighting: Flahault to Madame de Souza (June 15) - Quatre Bras and After (June 16-17): Flahault to Brialmont, and to Lavalette - Waterloo (June 18): Flahault to Thiers, and to the Moniteur - The Scene wtih Davout (June 28): Flahault to Larabit; The Bellerophon: The Journal and Letters of Admiral Viscount Keith, Commanding at Plymouth (July-August 1815); St. Helena: Letters from Lady Malcolm during Napoleon's Captivity; The Empress Josephine: An Appreciation, by Madame de Souza; Louis Bonaparte: A Correspondence with Madame de Souza (1800-1802); Queen Hortense: "The Frogs ask for a King" (1806) - "Ma Cousine Henriette" - Jean Hyacinthe de Morny - A Letter to Madame de Souza (1825) - A Visit from Madame de Flahault (1829); The Napoleonic Correspondence: The First Commission for its Publication - An Unpublished Letter; Appendix: Original French Versions of Translated Documents (Nos. 1 to 25); Genealogical Table; Index.