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Napoléon Ier (1769-1821)
8 L.S. "Napo", "Nap" or "NP", Schönbrunn September 1 - October 14, 1809, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Fain (4), Duroc (1) or Méneval| 3 pages and 4 half pages in-4. [547, 548, 550-555]
End of the stay at Schonbrunn, until the signature of the treaty of Vienna.
September 1st. "One did badly to make the national guards travel in post.
One abuses this means which exhausts the campaigns, tires the troops and costs an enormous money. To make men march on post without arms, who need time to organize themselves, is a real folly. You did not send me the names of the commanders of the National Guard of Paris| I would have liked to receive notes on each of them, which would have made them known to me. It seems to me that all that was carried out with too much precipitation and movement, to raise on the 1/3 of France, the 30,000 national guards, which I asked for, it was not necessary so much noise and effervescence"... September 4. "It remains at present to see what the English will do| it is madness to imagine that they might want to try to go up the river| that they would expose themselves in the middle of the countryside by passing the channel of
Bergopzoom, or by turning this place, that is more probable| but what good would that do? The troops of Prince Ponte Corvo [Bernadotte], the floods, the forts, and finally the ramparts of Antwerp would make this operation futile. Assuming that the English presented themselves on the coast with 30,000 hes, we can establish as certain that they now have only 25,000 hes, to evaluate at 5,000 those who have been taken out of combat as much by death and wounds as by illnesses, in an island such as that of Walcheren, that is very little and there will surely have been more.
The generals must have received my instructions today and know in what manner I wish that one behaves around Antwerp"...
Gravenek [Grafenegg] September 9. My cousin, I passed here yesterday the review of the corps of the Duke of Ragusa. I will leave in one hour to return to Vienna. The negotiations continue. One spread in Paris the rumor that I was sick, I never felt better.
September 12. "My Cousin, I see that, by telegraph, the Prince of
Pontecorvo [Bernadotte] has reported directly to you: he was wrong to send you his dispatch and you were wrong to receive it. Let this Prince know that it is always to the Minister of War that he must address himself. - The Minister of the Interior [Cretet] not having yet recovered, I think it would be appropriate for him to ask for his retirement [...] the activity of the circumstances in which we find ourselves and in which we can find ourselves, require in the ministry a man who is healthy and enjoys all his faculties"... September 24. "The Minister of War [Clarke] will communicate to you a draft of a senatus-consult for the raising of 30,000 conscripts. I have decided to make this levy| you will see the reasons for it in the report to be made by the Minister of War. In your speech to the Senate, you will be careful to support on what has of right and beneficent the idea to save the army of Germany by not wanting to carry it in the same year from the edges of the Danube to the Guadalquivir, and to make feel that this idea tends to save the French blood"...Cambaceres noted at the head: "to copy entirely".
September 28. "My Cousin, I receive your letter of the 22 with the resignation of Mr. CRETET. All that Mr. Cretet asks will be granted to him| he will have the title of Minister of State, he will be admitted to the council| and moreover, as soon as I see him a little restored, I will entrust to him the superintendence of the buildings of the Crown "... September 29. "My Cousin, the memorandum which you sent me on administrative expropriations does not treat the question with sufficient scope. You will find enclosed my opinion drafted to be sent to the Council of State"... October 14. "My Cousin, I am sending you an extraordinary estaffette to inform you that peace was signed this morning at 9 o'clock"...
8 L.S. "Napo", "Nap" or "NP", Schönbrunn September 1 - October 14, 1809, to Archchancellor CAMBACÉRÈS| the letters are written by Fain (4), Duroc (1) or Méneval| 3 pages and 4 half pages in-4. [547, 548, 550-555]
End of the stay at Schonbrunn, until the signature of the treaty of Vienna.
September 1st. "One did badly to make the national guards travel in post.
One abuses this means which exhausts the campaigns, tires the troops and costs an enormous money. To make men march on post without arms, who need time to organize themselves, is a real folly. You did not send me the names of the commanders of the National Guard of Paris| I would have liked to receive notes on each of them, which would have made them known to me. It seems to me that all that was carried out with too much precipitation and movement, to raise on the 1/3 of France, the 30,000 national guards, which I asked for, it was not necessary so much noise and effervescence"... September 4. "It remains at present to see what the English will do| it is madness to imagine that they might want to try to go up the river| that they would expose themselves in the middle of the countryside by passing the channel of
Bergopzoom, or by turning this place, that is more probable| but what good would that do? The troops of Prince Ponte Corvo [Bernadotte], the floods, the forts, and finally the ramparts of Antwerp would make this operation futile. Assuming that the English presented themselves on the coast with 30,000 hes, we can establish as certain that they now have only 25,000 hes, to evaluate at 5,000 those who have been taken out of combat as much by death and wounds as by illnesses, in an island such as that of Walcheren, that is very little and there will surely have been more.
The generals must have received my instructions today and know in what manner I wish that one behaves around Antwerp"...
Gravenek [Grafenegg] September 9. My cousin, I passed here yesterday the review of the corps of the Duke of Ragusa. I will leave in one hour to return to Vienna. The negotiations continue. One spread in Paris the rumor that I was sick, I never felt better.
September 12. "My Cousin, I see that, by telegraph, the Prince of
Pontecorvo [Bernadotte] has reported directly to you: he was wrong to send you his dispatch and you were wrong to receive it. Let this Prince know that it is always to the Minister of War that he must address himself. - The Minister of the Interior [Cretet] not having yet recovered, I think it would be appropriate for him to ask for his retirement [...] the activity of the circumstances in which we find ourselves and in which we can find ourselves, require in the ministry a man who is healthy and enjoys all his faculties"... September 24. "The Minister of War [Clarke] will communicate to you a draft of a senatus-consult for the raising of 30,000 conscripts. I have decided to make this levy| you will see the reasons for it in the report to be made by the Minister of War. In your speech to the Senate, you will be careful to support on what has of right and beneficent the idea to save the army of Germany by not wanting to carry it in the same year from the edges of the Danube to the Guadalquivir, and to make feel that this idea tends to save the French blood"...Cambaceres noted at the head: "to copy entirely".
September 28. "My Cousin, I receive your letter of the 22 with the resignation of Mr. CRETET. All that Mr. Cretet asks will be granted to him| he will have the title of Minister of State, he will be admitted to the council| and moreover, as soon as I see him a little restored, I will entrust to him the superintendence of the buildings of the Crown "... September 29. "My Cousin, the memorandum which you sent me on administrative expropriations does not treat the question with sufficient scope. You will find enclosed my opinion drafted to be sent to the Council of State"... October 14. "My Cousin, I am sending you an extraordinary estaffette to inform you that peace was signed this morning at 9 o'clock"...