The Retreat (31 page)

Roy,
Les Français en Russie
, Marne (1863). As the preceding item.

Labaume,
Relations circonstanciés de la campagne de Russie
, V.72785. Thorough and slightly dull. [13]

Faber du Faur,
Campagne de Russie
, V. 1260.

Stendhal,
Œuvres intimes
, tome I, La Pléiade (1981). Henri Beyle witnessed the fire of Moscow but set off for Smolensk and Danzig before the retreat. Some of his conversations in the novel are those he describes having in his journal. [14]

La Vouivre booksellers, II rue Saint-Martin, 75004 Paris, publish a very high quality series of books on the Empire, including:

Jean-Bréaut des Marlots,
Lettre d'un capitaine de cuirassiers sur la campagne de Russie
and Pierre-Paul Denniée,
Itinéraire de l'Empereur Napoléon pendant la campagne de 1812
.

Alexandre Bellot de Kergotte,
Journal d'un commissaire des guerres
(1806–1821).

Florent-Guibert,
Souvenirs d'un sous-lieutenant d'infanterie légère (1805–1815)
and François-René Cailloux, known as Pouget,
Souvenirs de guerre
(1790-1831).

Bulletins de la Grande Armée, campagne de Russie
.

The two volumes of reports by Sir Robert Wilson, England's representative at the Tsar's court. Among other things,
he reports on the atrocities perpetrated by the moujiks and advances the opinion that not all his allies are gentlemen.

Another bookseller also publishing little-known works from the period is Teisseidre, 102 rue du Cherche-Midi, 75006 Paris. I was struck by:

Louis Gardier,
Journal de la campagne en Russie en 1812
.

Bismark et Jacquemont,
Mémoires et carnets sur la campagne de Russie
.

Général comte Zaluski,
Les chevau-légers polonais de la Garde (1812–1814)

Pelet, Bonnet, Evert,
Carnets et journal sur la campagne de Russie
.

Of collections,
Mémoires d'Empire
, edited by Alain Pigeard, Quatuour, 1997, in a limited run of 300 copies, should not be forgotten.

Schnitzler,
La Russie en 1812
, V. 35845.

Birkov,
Le Mouvement partisan de la guerre patriotique, 1812
, V. 18508.

E. Dupré de Saint Maure,
L'Hermite en Russie
, Turin 1829, 11 vols.

Observations on Russian customs and practices at the start of the nineteenth century.

Godechot,
Napoléon
, Albin Michel, 1969. Contains two important documents, a French priest's account of Moscow and Rostopchin's defence for having ordered the city to be set on fire.

Vassili Verestchagen,
Napoléon I
^er
en Russie
, Nilsson, 1897. Fascinating testimonies from Muscovites and Russian prisoners.

Grand,
Un officier prisonnier des Russes
, V. 35845.

Désiré Fuzellier,
Journal de captivité en Russie
, editions du Griot, Boulogne. With a very informative preface by a descendant of the author, a historian.

Concerning the mood of occupied Moscow, one may also read
Lettres interceptées par les Russes
, La Sabretache, 1913. V. 59077.

Alain Pigeard,
L'Armée napoléonienne
, Curandera, 1993.

Baldet,
Vie quotidienne dans les armées de Napoléon
, Hachette, V. 17162.

Ferdinand Bac,
Le retour de la Grande Armée, 1812
, Hachette, 1939.

Lucas Dubreton,
Soldats de Napoléon
, V. 61835.

Boutourlin,
Histoire militaire de la campagne de Russie
, V. 72807–2.

‘Les Sous-Officiers de la Révolution et de l'Empire‘, an article by Gilbert Bolinier published in the
Revue historique de armées
, no. 2, 1986.

R. Brice,
Les Femmes et les armées de la Révolution et de l'Empire
, V.4354.

‘De Borodino à Moscou‘, an article by Marc-André Fabré published in the
Revue historique de armées
, 1960.

Masson,
Cavaliers de Napoléon
, V.24811.

Chardigny,
Les Maréchaux de Napoléon
, Flammarion, 1946.

Damamme,
Les Soldats de la Grande Armée
, Perrin, 1998.

Naturally the two volumes of
Vie quotidienne au temps de Napoléon
published by Hachette at different periods, that of Robiquet in 1944 and Tulard in 1988. [15]

Histoire et dictionnaire du Consulat et de l'Empire
, Fierro, Palluel and Tulard, ‘Bouquins', Robert Laffont, 1995.

‘Bouquins', 1998,
Le Consulat et l'Empire
, in the series
‘Les français par eux-mêmes'
.

Philippe Séguy,
Histoire des modes sous l'Empire
, Taillandier, 1988.

D'Aiméras,
La Vie parisienne sous le Consulat et l'Empire
, Albin Michel, undated.

Bertaut,
La Vie à Paris sous le I
^er
Empire
, Calmann-Lévy, 1949.

Correspondance de Napoleon I
^er
, published by order of Emperor Napoleon III, tome XXIV, Imprimerie impériale, 1868. Selected letters which one can consult in the Salle des Archives of the Fort de Vincennes.

Stendhal,
Vie de Napoléon
, Payot, 1969. A new, more complete, edition was published by Stock in 1998. [16]

Bainville,
Napoléon
, Fayard, 1931. [17]

Ludwig,
Napoléon
, Payot, 1929. [18]

Savant,
Tel fut Napoléon
, Fasquelle, 1953. This text was reprinted, with a large number of illustrations, under the title
Napoléon
, Henri Veyrier, 1954. A purely negative point of view, hence often exaggerated or erroneous.

G. Lenotre,
Napoléon, croquis de l'epopée
, and
En suivant l'Empereur
. Two vivid and extremely well-documented collections of articles republished by Grasset in ‘Les Cahiers rouges'. I particularly recommend
‘Ce qu'on trouve au fond de la Bérésina'.

Bouhler,
Napoléon
, Grasset, 1942.

Mauguin,
Napoléon et la superstition
, Carrère, Rodez, 1942. Anecdotes and curiosities.

Bertaut,
Napoléon ignoré
, Sfelt, 1951.

Brice,
Le Secret de Napoléon
, Payot, 1936. [19]

Frugier,
Napoléon, essai medico-psychologique
, Albatros, 1985.

Taine,
Les Origines de la France contemporaine
, Tome 11, Hachette, 1907. [20]

Toute l'histoire de Napoléon
, Vol. 8, ‘Napoléon et les médecins.' I found the formula for Napoleon's poison here.

With regard to the King of Sweden's Russian expedition, I consulted the same Voltaire as Napoleon, namely, in the
Œuvres Complètes
, Baudoin Frères, Paris, 1825:

Tome XXX,
Histoire de Charles XII.

Tome XXXI,
Histoire de Russie
, first part.

Numbers in square brackets correspond to those in the list above.

Faber du Faur, Christian Wilhelm von,
With Napoleon in Russia: the illustrated memoirs of Major Faber du Faur, 1812
, ed. and tr. Jonathan North (London: Greenhill, 2001). [1]

Segur, General, Count Philip de,
History of the Expedition to Russia undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the year 1812
(2 vols: London: Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuuttel Jun. and Richter, 1825). [2]

Caulaincourt, Armand-Augustin-Louis de, Duke of Vicenza,
Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vincenza
, tr. Hamish Miles (London: Cassell, 1935). [3]

Ménéval, Claude François de, Baron de,
Memoirs to serve for the history of Napoleon I. from 1802 to 1815 I completed by the addition of unpublished documents
Tr. and annotated by Robert H. Sherard (3 vols: London, 1894). [4]

Constant,
Memoirs of Constant: the Emperor Napoleon's head valet; containing details of the private life of Napoleon, his family and his court
, tr. Percy Pinkerton (London: Hs. Nichols). [5]

Marbot, Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin, Baron de,
The memoirs of Baron de Marbot
, tr. Arthur John Butler (London: Longmans Green, 1892; facs. ed. London: Greenhill, 1988). [6]

Lejeune, Baron de,
Memoirs of Baron Lejeune
, tr. Mrs Arthur Bell (2 vols: London: Longmans Green, 1897). [7]

Fezensac, Raymond Eymery Philippe Joseph de, Duke,
A journal
of the Russian campaign of 1812
, tr. Colonel W. Knollys (London, 1852). [8]

Bausset, Louis-François-Joseph de,
Private memoirs of the court of Napoleon, and of some publick events of the imperial reign, from 1805 to the first of May 1814: to serve as a contribution to the history of Napoleon
(Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828). [9]

Rapp, Jean, Count,
Memoirs of General Count Rapp: first aide-decamp to Napoleon
(London: H. Colburn and Co., 1823). [10]

Macdonald, Etienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre, Duke of Tarentum,
Recollections of Marshal Macdonald Duke of Tarentum
, tr. Stephen Louis Simeon (London, 1892). [11]

Bourgogne,
Memoirs of Sergeant Bourgogne
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1896/1940). [12]

Labaume, Eugène,
1812, through fire and ice with Napoleon: a French officers memoir of the campaign in Russia
(Solihull, West Midlands, England: Helion, 2002). [13]

Beyle, Marie Henri,
The Private Diaries of Stendhal
, ed. and tr. Robert Sage (London: Victor Gollancz, 1955). [14]

Robiquet, Jean,
Daily life in France under Napoleon
, tr. Violet M. MacDonald (London: Allen and Unwin, 1962). [15]

Beyle, Marie Henri,
A life of Napoleon
(London: Rodale Press, 1956). [16]

Bainville, Jacques,
Napoleon
, tr. Hamish Miles; intr. H. A. L. Fisher (London: J. Cape, 1932; Safety Harbor, FL: Simon Publications, 2001). [17]

Ludwig, Emil,
Napoleon
, tr. Eden and Cedar Paul (London, Allen and Unwin, 1927). [18]

Brice, Léon Raoul Marie,
The Riddle of Napoleon
, tr. Basil Creighton (London: Putnam, 1937). [19]

Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe,
The origins of contemporary France
, tr. John Durand (University of Chicago: Chicago & London, 1974). [20]