ADVERTISEMENT [from the book]: IN the following compilation, drawn up by way of Appendix to the Life of Buonaparte contained in the first two Numbers of the Family Library, the reader will find a few incidents, and perhaps characters, treated in a spirit somewhat different from that of the above-named Biography. The present writer might be content to obsenve, that probably no two minds will ever arrive at the very same conclusions upon every point embraced in the stormy career of Napoleon and his Lieutenants; but he believes that, in most of the instances alluded to, his statements will be found in accordance with the very able, interesting, and trust-worthy memoirs of M. de Bourrienne — of which only one volume had appeared, when the publication of the Family Library commenced. The second volume of Colonel Napier’s masterly History of the Peninsular War, and the clear and spirited Annals of those campaigns, by the Author of Cyril Thornton, have also appeared since that time; and both have, of course, furnished new details of many important transactions.
Chelsea, Nov. 1829.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
NAPOLEON'S BROTHERS:
NAPOLEON'S SISTERS:
NAPOLEON'S WIVES:
| JOSEPHINE
Viscountess de Beauharnais - 17-- Empress of France - 1804 |
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| MARIA LOUISA
Archduchess of Austria - 1791 Empress of France - 1810 Duchess of Parma - 1814 |
MINISTERS:
MARSHALS AND GENERALS: