Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Volum 1H. Colburn and Company, 1823 |
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Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Volum 1 Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) Visualització completa - 1823 |
Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Volum 1 Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) Visualització completa - 1823 |
Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Volum 1 Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) Visualització completa - 1823 |
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18th of Brumaire Alessandria Antibes arms Army of Italy Army of Reserve arrived artillery attack Austrian army Barras batteries battle blockade Bonaparte campaign cannon cavalry citizens command Committee Constitution Consul corps Council of Ancients Council of Five Danube debouched decree defended departments Desaix Directory division enemy English entered evacuated execution Field-marshal Kray Five Hundred force formed Fouché France French army French Republic Frimaire garrison General-in-chief Genoa Government guard head-quarters honour intrenched June Lannes Lapoype leagues Lecourbe left bank Legislative Body liberty manded marched Marengo Marseilles Massena Melas Memoirs.-VOL ment Messidor Minister Monte Moreau Napoleon Nice occupied officers Ollioules Oneglia Paris passed port position possession prisoners Provence redoubt retreat Rhine right bank river road Roger Ducos safety Saint-Bernard Saint-Cloud Saint-Cyr Sainte-Suzanne Senate siege Sieyes soldiers Suchet tion toises took Tortona Toulon Tribunate troops Turin van-guard vessels victory VIII whole
Passatges populars
Pàgina xvi - I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Pàgina iii - Memoirs of the History of France during the reign of Napoleon, dictated by the Emperor at Saint Helena to the Generals who shared his captivity ; and published from the Original Manuscripts corrected by himself.
Pàgina xvi - Exposed to the factions which divide my country, and to the enmity of the great powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself on the hospitality (litwatty, to seat myself on the hearths) of the British people.
Pàgina 82 - I will faithfully fulfil the task with which you have intrusted me : let us not look into the past for examples of what is now going on. Nothing in history resembles the end of the eighteenth century ; nothing in the eighteenth century resembles the present moment.
Pàgina 27 - Nine seventy-four gun ships and four frigates or corvettes became a prey to the flames. The fire and smoke from the arsenal resembled the eruption of a volcano, and the thirteen vessels which were burning in the road were like so many magnificent displays of fireworks. The masts and forms of the vessels were distinctly marked by the blaze, which lasted many hours, and formed an unparalleled spectacle.
Pàgina 90 - The furious rushing forth of the winds inclosed in the caverns of Eolus never raised a more raging storm. The speaker was violently hurled to the bottom of the tribune. The ferment became excessive. Delbred desired that the members should swear anew to the Constitution of the year III. — Chenier, Lucien, Boulay, trembled. The chamber proceeded to the Appel Nominal...
Pàgina 103 - The stilettos which had menaced the deputies were instantly raised against their deliverer. Twenty assassins rushed upon me and aimed at my breast. The grenadiers of the legislative body, whom I had left at the door of the hall, ran forward and placed themselves between me and the assassins. One of these brave grenadiers had his clothes pierced by a stiletto. They bore me out. At the same moment cries of "Outlaw him!
Pàgina 368 - ... defence, but that of open and steady hostility, can be availing. The most solemn treaties have only prepared the way for fresh aggression ; and it is to a determined resistance alone that is now due whatever remains N in Europe of stability for property, for personal liberty, for social order, or for the free exercise of religion.
Pàgina 369 - His Majesty makes no claim to prescribe to France what shall be the form of her government, or in whose hands she shall vest the authority necessary for conducting the affairs of a great and powerful nation.
Pàgina 62 - Sieyes came to Napoleon, and took him into the recess of a window, while the Committee was deliberating upon the answer to be given to the summons of the sections. " You hear them, General," said he, " they talk while they should be acting. Bodies of men are wholly unfit to direct armies, for they know not the value of time or opportunity. You have nothing to do here. Go, General, consult (your genius and the situation of the country : the hope of the Republic rests on you alone.