Download or read book Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 1 of 4 In what we have done ourselves, we have been guided by a Spirit of impartiality. In common with Bourrienne, we have in many instances ventured to differ from the ex-parte statements of Savary (the notorious Duke of Rovigo), the Count Las Cases, and some others of Napoleon's adherents; but, we trust, that we have never been led away by prejudice, and in no single instance have stated controverted facts except on the highest authorities. Englishmen as we are, we are quite ready to allow that during the prosecution of the last tremendous war, all the fault did not rest with Bonaparte. Carlo Botta, the great historian of modern Italy, justly ohserves, that republicans and royalists, emperors, kings, the p0pe, the ministers in the different cabinets of Europe, and the different generals in the field, all erred, and were often not merely politically and strategetically, but morally wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.