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NAPOLÉON Ier (1769-1821) Empereur
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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, III| 1 page in fol. on leopard-print laid paper from the English manufacture Budgen & Wilmott.
Early version of a chapter from the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon on the Directory and the causes of the coup d'état of 18 fructidor. This passage, entirely in Napoleon's handwriting, with erasures and corrections, corresponds to sections I and II of chapter
XVI of the Campagnes d'Italie entitled Journée du dix-huit fructidor (Day of the 18th of July) in the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon (Memoirs to serve as a guide to the history of France under Napoleon), published in 6 volumes by Firmin-Didot in 1823-1825, and reproduced in the Oeuvres de Napoléon I à Sainte-Hélène (Works of Napoleon at Saint-Hélène) given following the Correspondence (Imprimerie Impériale), vol. XXIX, pp. 346-349. Numbered
III, it was crossed out with a vertical pencil line after its use in the copy of the Memoirs, and offers an early version entirely different from the published text. "One saw with astonishment that the first Directory of the government composed of 5 conventionals was against the Convention they were driven out of Paris. The energetic patriots who had walked and had been in the various events of the Revolution companions of the members of the
Government were removed from the councils. In the first months of its administration the Directory allied itself with the most energetic part of the republicans, all that it did to caress the aristocracy and to conciliate the sufrages of the high class of the society only made this one more demanding and gave him new means to harm.
The striking off on the list of the emigrants was numerous and always [?] on the most intriguing and the most active agents of the faction of the foreigner. However, this conduct of the Directory was to be the result of weakness and blindness. He was not long in realizing that the precipice was being dug under his feet. He then suddenly turned back and undid what he had done, called back the men he had sent away, but found them allies. In the course of the first years the current acted and reacted like this three or four times. It resembled a small boat that had lost its way and was tacking adventurously without knowing where it wanted to end up. Since then the Directory, having acquired more strength, adopted another system, that of the tilt. Every time it took some measure which struck the Anarchists, it struck the Royalists at the same time, although the latter had not given rise to it, and vice versa. The ingratitude, the falsehood, the profound immorality of this system indignantly moved all minds and hearts away from the Government. From that moment it is said that this government had a sceptre of lead".
PROVENANCE Papers LAS CASES.
AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, III| 1 page in fol. on leopard-print laid paper from the English manufacture Budgen & Wilmott.
Early version of a chapter from the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon on the Directory and the causes of the coup d'état of 18 fructidor. This passage, entirely in Napoleon's handwriting, with erasures and corrections, corresponds to sections I and II of chapter
XVI of the Campagnes d'Italie entitled Journée du dix-huit fructidor (Day of the 18th of July) in the Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon (Memoirs to serve as a guide to the history of France under Napoleon), published in 6 volumes by Firmin-Didot in 1823-1825, and reproduced in the Oeuvres de Napoléon I à Sainte-Hélène (Works of Napoleon at Saint-Hélène) given following the Correspondence (Imprimerie Impériale), vol. XXIX, pp. 346-349. Numbered
III, it was crossed out with a vertical pencil line after its use in the copy of the Memoirs, and offers an early version entirely different from the published text. "One saw with astonishment that the first Directory of the government composed of 5 conventionals was against the Convention they were driven out of Paris. The energetic patriots who had walked and had been in the various events of the Revolution companions of the members of the
Government were removed from the councils. In the first months of its administration the Directory allied itself with the most energetic part of the republicans, all that it did to caress the aristocracy and to conciliate the sufrages of the high class of the society only made this one more demanding and gave him new means to harm.
The striking off on the list of the emigrants was numerous and always [?] on the most intriguing and the most active agents of the faction of the foreigner. However, this conduct of the Directory was to be the result of weakness and blindness. He was not long in realizing that the precipice was being dug under his feet. He then suddenly turned back and undid what he had done, called back the men he had sent away, but found them allies. In the course of the first years the current acted and reacted like this three or four times. It resembled a small boat that had lost its way and was tacking adventurously without knowing where it wanted to end up. Since then the Directory, having acquired more strength, adopted another system, that of the tilt. Every time it took some measure which struck the Anarchists, it struck the Royalists at the same time, although the latter had not given rise to it, and vice versa. The ingratitude, the falsehood, the profound immorality of this system indignantly moved all minds and hearts away from the Government. From that moment it is said that this government had a sceptre of lead".
PROVENANCE Papers LAS CASES.