Napoleon's Letters To Josephine Part 2

G: Didot.

H: Various.

I: Pages of Corresponding Notes.

E A B C D ----------------------------------- I F G H {No. 2, from } 1-16 A 1796 8 { Nos.} { St. Amand, } 198-211 {1, } { _La Citoyenne_} {3-8 } { _Bonaparte_ } {Nos. } {No. 15, from } 17-38 B 1796-7 25 {1-14 } { Bourrienne's } 211-223 {16-25} { _Life of_ } { _Bonaparte_ } 39-46 C 1800 4 No. 3 1,2,4 223-225 47-53 D 1801-2 5 all 225-231 {No. 1, } { _Correspondence_} 55-60 E 1804 6 {Nos. } {No. 5, } 232-237 {2,3,} { Collection } {4,6 } { of Baron Heath} 61-74 F 1805 19 all 237-243 {No. 9A, from } { Mlle. } 243-264 { D'Avrillon } 75-118 G 1806-7 87 all but {No. 85, from } { Las Casas } 119-122 H 1807 3 all 264-267 123-128 I 1808 4 all 267-269 129-132 J 1808 3 all 269-273 133-140 K 1808-9 14 all 273-278 141-154 L 1809 25 all 278-295 155-165 M 1809-10 22 all 295-304 167-176 N 1810 11[13] all 304-310 177-181 O 1811 4 all 311-312 183-197 P 1812-14 2 all 312-315 ------ 242

316. APPENDIX (1).--Reputed Poem by Napoleon.

317. APPENDIX (2).--Genealogy of the Bonaparte Family.

317-321. APPENDIX (3).--Spurious Letters of Napoleon to Josephine.

FOOTNOTES

[13] Exclusive of two from Josephine to Napoleon.

LIST OF ILl.u.s.tRATIONS

NAPOLEON _Frontispiece_ FROM AN ENGRAVING BY T. WRIGHT, AFTER AN ORIGINAL DRAWING (_Photogravure_)

EUGeNE BEAUHARNAIS _Face page_ 121 AFTERWARDS VICEROY OF ITALY (_Photogravure_)

JOSEPHINE BEAUHARNAIS _Face page_ 198 _Circa_ 1795 (_Photogravure_)

FAC-SIMILE OF LETTER, DATED APRIL 24, 1796 _Pages_ 202-3

NAPOLEON'S LETTERS

SERIES A

(1796)

"Only those who knew Napoleon in the intercourse of private life can render justice to his character. For my own part, I know him, as it were, by heart; and in proportion as time separates us, he appears to me like a beautiful dream. And would you believe that, in my recollections of Napoleon, that which seems to me to approach most nearly to ideal excellence is not the hero, filling the world with his gigantic fame, but the man, viewed in the relations of private life?"--_Recollections of Caulaincourt_, _Duke of Vicenza_, vol. i.

197.

SERIES A

(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 198-211.)

LETTER PAGE

_Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief_ 198

No. 1. 7 A.M. 198

No. 2. _Our good Ossian_ 199

No. 4. _Chauvet is dead_ 199

No. 5. Napoleon's suspicions 199 _The lovers of nineteen_ 200 _My brother_ 200

No. 6. _Unalterably good_ 201 _If you want a place for any one_ 201

No. 7. A criticism by Aubenas 201 _June 15th_ 204 _Presentiment of ill_ 210

No. 8. The Treaty with Rome 210 _Fortune_ 211

1796.

_February 23rd.--Bonaparte made Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy._

No. 1.

_Seven o'clock in the morning._

My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? do I see you sad? are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. But is there more for me when, delivering ourselves up to the deep feelings which master me, I breathe out upon your lips, upon your heart, a flame which burns me up--ah, it was this past night I realised that your portrait was not you. You start at noon; I shall see you in three hours. Meanwhile, _mio dolce amor_, accept a thousand kisses,[14] but give me none, for they fire my blood.

N. B.

_A Madame Beauharnais._

_March 9th.--Bonaparte marries Josephine._

_March 11th.--Bonaparte leaves Paris to join his army._

No. 2.

_Chanceaux Post House, March 14, 1796._

I wrote you at Chatillon, and sent you a power of attorney to enable you to receive various sums of money in course of remittance to me.