Authors: Philip Dwyer
Citizen Emperor (186 page)
| 78 . | Puybusque, Lettres sur la guerre de Russie , pp. 35–6 (19 August 1812). |
| 79 . | Ségur, Histoire et mémoires , v. p. 71. |
| 80 . | Caulaincourt, Memoirs , i. pp. 277. |
| 81 . | Caulaincourt, Memoirs , i. p. 313. |
| 82 . | François, Journal , p. 668 (1–5 October 1812). |
| 83 . | An employee of the General Intendancy, 19 October 1812, in Lettres interceptées , p. 175. |
| 84 . | Mortier to Berthier, 18 September 1812, in Chuquet (ed.), Lettres de 1812 , pp. 43–4. |
| 85 . | Caulaincourt, Memoirs , i. p. 310. |
| 86 . | Caulaincourt, Memoirs , i. pp. 297–8, 302, 323; Blocqueville, Le maréchal Davout , iii. 181. |
| 87 . | Waresquiel (ed.), Lettres d’un lion , p. 92 (8 October 1812). |
| 88 . | François, Journal , p. 670 (13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 October 1812). |
| 89 . | Adams, Napoleon and Russia , p. 370. |
| 90 . | Caulaincourt, Memoirs , i. pp. 301–3. |
| 91 . | Corr. xxiv. nos. 19238 and 19245 (1 and 4 October 1812). |
| 92 . | According to Ségur, Histoire et mémoires , v. p. 93. |
| 93 . | Adams, Napoleon and Russia , p. 372. |
| 94 . | Lieven, Russia against Napoleon , pp. 251–2. |
| 95 . | Adams (ed.), Memoirs of John Quincy Adams , ii. p. 410 (2 October 1812). |
| 96 . | Corr. xxiv. n. 19237 (no date, but probably 1 October 1812), although, according to Fain, Manuscrit de mil huit cent douze , ii. pp. 93–5, plans were drawn up to threaten Petersburg. |
| 97 . | For this and the following: Adams, Napoleon and Russia , pp. 370–1; Napoleon’s options are to be found in a number of documents in Corr. xxiv. nos. 19237, 19250, 19258, 19275 (1, 5, 6 and 16 October 1812). |
| 98 . | Van Boecop to his father (27 September 1812), in Lettres interceptées , p. 50. |
| 99 . | Adams, Napoleon and Russia , pp. 371–2, believes that Napoleon had lost confidence and that he was avoiding Kutuzov. |
100
. Fain,
Manuscrit de mil huit cent douze
, ii. pp. 95–7.
101
. Berthier to Dumas, 10 October 1812, in Chuquet (ed.),
Lettres de 1812
, pp. 77–80.
102
.
Corr.
xxiv. n. 19273 (14 October 1812); Berthier in Chuquet (ed.),
Lettres de 1812
, pp. 81–2 (14 October 1812).
103
. Fain,
Manuscrit de mil huit cent douze
, ii. p. 153.
104
. Castellane,
Journal
, i. p. 168; Ernest Picard and Louis Tuetey (eds),
Correspondance inédite de Napoléon Ier, conservée aux Archives de la guerre
, 5 vols (Paris, 1912–25), v. p. 595.
105
. Castellane,
Journal
, i. p. 161 (27 September 1812).
106
. Caulaincourt,
Memoirs
, i. p. 327.
107
. Zamoyski,
1812
, pp. 352–3.
108
.
Corr.
xxiv. n. 19285 (18 October 1812); Caulaincourt,
Memoirs
, i. pp. 327–30; Nicolas-Louis Planat de la Faye,
Vie de Planat de la Faye, aide de camp des généraux Lariboisière et Drouot, officier d’ordonnance de Napoléon Ier. Souvenirs, lettres et dictées recueillis et annotés par sa veuve
(Paris, 1895), p. 92.
109
. Lieutenant Paradis to Mlle Bonnegrâce (20 September); Frédéric List to his wife (22 September 1812); Marie-François Schaken to his father (29 September); Baron Bacler d’Albe to his wife (14 October), in
Lettres interceptées
, pp. 22, 27, 61, 111.
110
. Dauxon to his wife (15 October), in
Lettres interceptées
, p. 155.
111
. Bourgogne,
Mémoires
, pp. 55–6.
112
. Robert de Vaucorbeil, ‘Mémoires inédits d’Alexandre de Cheron sur la campagne de Russie’,
Revue de l’Institut Napoléon
, 140 (1983): 27–57, here 35–6.
113
. Bourgeois,
Tableau de la campagne de Moscou
, pp. 84–5.
114
. Fain,
Manuscrit de mil huit cent douze
, ii. p. 161.
115
. Soltyk,
Napoléon en 1812
, pp. 238–9; Montesquiou-Fezensac,
Souvenirs militaires
, pp. 276–8.
116
. Baudus,
Etudes sur Napoléon
, ii. pp. 246–7.
117
. Zamoyski,
1812
, p. 367.
118
. Labaume,
Relation circonstanciée
, pp. 232–3.
119
. Denniée,
Itinéraire de l’empereur Napoléon
, pp. 107–8; Castellane,
Journal
, i. p. 173 (19 October 1812). Also Boudon,
Le roi Jérôme
, p. 385.
120
. Labaume,
Relation circonstanciée
, p. 249 (several leagues according to Labaume).
121
. Bellot de Kergorre,
Journal
, p. 59.
122
. Vionnet de Maringoné,
Souvenirs
, p. 61; Louis-Vivant Lagneau,
Journal d’un chirurgien de la Grande Armée, 1803–1815
(Paris, 1913), p. 218.
123
. Lejeune,
Mémoires
, p. 408.
124
. Mailly,
Mon
journal
, pp. 66–7.
125
. Mailly,
Mon journal
, p. 71.
126
. Duverger,
Mes aventures
, pp. 12, 15.
127
. Labaume,
Relation circonstanciée
, p. 229.
128
. Lejeune,
Mémoires
, p. 409, asserted that the army took six days to cover 140 kilometres. Bourgogne,
Mémoires
, p. 58; Adams,
Napoleon and Russia
, p. 375.
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