Man of Logic NAPOLEON'S MEMOIRS [605 pp.) —Edited by Somerset de Chair—Harper ($7.50). "I have been severely scolded today over my laziness," said the exiled Napoleon ...

MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. From the French of F. de Bourrienne. Newly edited, with notes and a chronological table. 12mo. Pp. 540. New York: The Frederick A. Stokes Company. 75 cents.

An early draft of Napoleon Bonaparte’s will–in which the French emperor writes of his English enemies “I forgive them,” but then scratches out the phrase–sold at a Paris auction on ...

Napoleon’s beginnings are no less rustic, but of a different order. As he told Las Cases, his mother was on her way to mass when she rushed back home to give birth.

The memoirs of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and a draft copy of his unpublished will have been sold in Paris for more than 300,000 euros. The 84-page memoir recounts his early military campaigns ...

Napoleon lived on St Helena island with an entourage of about 20 people from 1815 until his death in 1821. In the first years of exile he spent much of his time writing his memoirs. But "from 1818 ...

She refers to the memoirs of Napoleon's valet Louis-Joseph Marchand: "Captain Besson, commanding a Danish ship, placed himself at the disposal of the Emperor, ...

That great man also had to disappear so that the mother of all political memoirs could be born: The Memorial of Saint Helena. Thanks to Napoleon’s brilliant effort at reinvention, the book transformed ...