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Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 01 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
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MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, VOLUME 1.

By LOUIS ANTOINE FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE

His Private Secretary

Edited by R. W. Phipps
Colonel, Late Royal Artillery

1891



CONTENTS:
Preface,
Notes and Introduction
Chapter I. to Chapter IV., 1797




PREFACE

BY THE EDITORS OF THE 1836 EDITION.

In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs to the
public we are bound, as Editors, to say a few Words on the subject.
Agreeing, however, with Horace Walpole that an editor should not dwell
for any length of time on the merits of his author, we shall touch but
lightly on this part of the matter. We are the more ready to abstain
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