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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
13 L.S. "Napoleon," "Napole" or "Nap," including 2 with autograph corrections, and one unsigned, Posen, Kutno, Warsaw, Golymin, and Pultusk Nov. 29-Dec. 31, 1806, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Méneval (except for the last one)| 12 pages and 4 half-pages in-4.
[271-284]
Beginning of the Polish campaign against Russia. At the head of the letter, Cambaceres noted: "Copy in full"
Posen [Poznań] November 29. On the subject of a "ridiculous conspiracy" jacobine: "while believing that it is necessary to give some publicity to this affair, I do not want that it must make spill blood"| that falls under the criminal court...
Posen December 1st. "You will see by today's bulletin that my troops have entered Warsaw. The whole of Poland takes up arms. It is difficult to get an idea of the national movement in this country. The Poles are raising regiments by force. The hottest are the richest. Priests, nobles, peasants, all are unanimous. Poland will soon have 60 thousand men under arms. The great nobles of the country are all people of 100 to 500,000 f. of income. They are the ones who provide for the expenses of their army. In the midst of the marches and movements of such a large army and the excesses which are the result, we are at balls, and I am going tomorrow to a ball given to me by the nobility of the city. The ladies were presented to me, they all left their campaigns, it is the first time since the destruction of Poland that they showed themselves. All the well-to-do people speak French, and the peasants love France"...
Posen, December 2. "My intention is that the manuscript I sent you be printed in Paris and put on sale. You will send me a dozen copies. What the sale of this work will produce, will cover the expenses of printing"...
Posen December 5. "You will have seen that the suspension of arms has not been ratified by the King of Prussia. This unfortunate prince is now on the way to losing his crown. Everything is going well here.
Today's bulletin will inform you of the capture of Glogau. In a few days, you will learn that of Breslau. My troops have crossed the
Vistula and have seized the suburb of Prag. The outposts are on the Bug. I rely on the zeal of the ministers to get the conscription going"... He wishes "that you have all these ridiculous rumors of war with Spain refuted by unofficial articles [autograph addition]. Also have the evil that can be said of Austria, with whom we are well disposed, prevented. [...] The author of the answer to the manifesto of the King of Prussia made a great error concerning the passage on the territory of Anspach. I had the right to pass there because the treaty of
Basle gave me this right| that after the peace of Campo-Formio and in the second coalition I passed there in virtue of the treaty of Basle| that finally the King of Prussia had not made me notify not to pass there| that I did not have any interest in passing there, since the enemy army was turned by Nordlingen and Donawerth| that it would be ridiculous, when my army crossed even the country recognized as included in the neutrality of the north by the treaty of Basle & the subsequent treaties| that my army passed on the territory of Hesse-Cassel by the insinuations even of
Prussia, that it would be ridiculous, I say, that one wanted to prevent me from passing on the territory of the Empire where the treaty of Basle authorized me to pass.
As I attach great importance to this historical fact, I would like the author to rectify this passage in his memoir by attacking himself in a well-struck note. The only cause of this miserable quarrel was in the spirit of vertigo which animated the Cabinet of Berlin, It had judged that I was the weakest and that I would succumb under the Russians.
My army was in the middle of Germany when the Russian Cossacks violated the Prussian territory. The spirit of cowardice which characterized this cabinet led it to declare itself against the one it believed to be the weakest"...
Posen December 6. "You will have read in the Moniteur all the documents relating to the negotiations with England. Nothing new here. The Russians have passed the Bug again and seem to be concentrating on their borders"...
Posen 10 December. Appointment of Belleville as "intendant general of the States of Hanover"...
Posen December 11. He received his letter with a delay of 36 hours, caused by the flood of the Fulde. Orders for the organization and the raising of national guards. In head, note of Cambaceres: "the answers are with those of the prefects"...
Posen December 11. It is necessary to ask the ambassador of the Door to inform his government "of all that occurs in Europe. You will tell him that, by a letter which I received from Jassy & which crossed
Poland, I learned that the Russians had entered Jassy on November 25| that the pashas of C
13 L.S. "Napoleon," "Napole" or "Nap," including 2 with autograph corrections, and one unsigned, Posen, Kutno, Warsaw, Golymin, and Pultusk Nov. 29-Dec. 31, 1806, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Méneval (except for the last one)| 12 pages and 4 half-pages in-4.
[271-284]
Beginning of the Polish campaign against Russia. At the head of the letter, Cambaceres noted: "Copy in full"
Posen [Poznań] November 29. On the subject of a "ridiculous conspiracy" jacobine: "while believing that it is necessary to give some publicity to this affair, I do not want that it must make spill blood"| that falls under the criminal court...
Posen December 1st. "You will see by today's bulletin that my troops have entered Warsaw. The whole of Poland takes up arms. It is difficult to get an idea of the national movement in this country. The Poles are raising regiments by force. The hottest are the richest. Priests, nobles, peasants, all are unanimous. Poland will soon have 60 thousand men under arms. The great nobles of the country are all people of 100 to 500,000 f. of income. They are the ones who provide for the expenses of their army. In the midst of the marches and movements of such a large army and the excesses which are the result, we are at balls, and I am going tomorrow to a ball given to me by the nobility of the city. The ladies were presented to me, they all left their campaigns, it is the first time since the destruction of Poland that they showed themselves. All the well-to-do people speak French, and the peasants love France"...
Posen, December 2. "My intention is that the manuscript I sent you be printed in Paris and put on sale. You will send me a dozen copies. What the sale of this work will produce, will cover the expenses of printing"...
Posen December 5. "You will have seen that the suspension of arms has not been ratified by the King of Prussia. This unfortunate prince is now on the way to losing his crown. Everything is going well here.
Today's bulletin will inform you of the capture of Glogau. In a few days, you will learn that of Breslau. My troops have crossed the
Vistula and have seized the suburb of Prag. The outposts are on the Bug. I rely on the zeal of the ministers to get the conscription going"... He wishes "that you have all these ridiculous rumors of war with Spain refuted by unofficial articles [autograph addition]. Also have the evil that can be said of Austria, with whom we are well disposed, prevented. [...] The author of the answer to the manifesto of the King of Prussia made a great error concerning the passage on the territory of Anspach. I had the right to pass there because the treaty of
Basle gave me this right| that after the peace of Campo-Formio and in the second coalition I passed there in virtue of the treaty of Basle| that finally the King of Prussia had not made me notify not to pass there| that I did not have any interest in passing there, since the enemy army was turned by Nordlingen and Donawerth| that it would be ridiculous, when my army crossed even the country recognized as included in the neutrality of the north by the treaty of Basle & the subsequent treaties| that my army passed on the territory of Hesse-Cassel by the insinuations even of
Prussia, that it would be ridiculous, I say, that one wanted to prevent me from passing on the territory of the Empire where the treaty of Basle authorized me to pass.
As I attach great importance to this historical fact, I would like the author to rectify this passage in his memoir by attacking himself in a well-struck note. The only cause of this miserable quarrel was in the spirit of vertigo which animated the Cabinet of Berlin, It had judged that I was the weakest and that I would succumb under the Russians.
My army was in the middle of Germany when the Russian Cossacks violated the Prussian territory. The spirit of cowardice which characterized this cabinet led it to declare itself against the one it believed to be the weakest"...
Posen December 6. "You will have read in the Moniteur all the documents relating to the negotiations with England. Nothing new here. The Russians have passed the Bug again and seem to be concentrating on their borders"...
Posen 10 December. Appointment of Belleville as "intendant general of the States of Hanover"...
Posen December 11. He received his letter with a delay of 36 hours, caused by the flood of the Fulde. Orders for the organization and the raising of national guards. In head, note of Cambaceres: "the answers are with those of the prefects"...
Posen December 11. It is necessary to ask the ambassador of the Door to inform his government "of all that occurs in Europe. You will tell him that, by a letter which I received from Jassy & which crossed
Poland, I learned that the Russians had entered Jassy on November 25| that the pashas of C