Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon is the memoir of Louis Constant Wairy, who served as the emperor's first valet from 1800 until the abdication of 1814 and saw him at every hour of the day. First published in Paris in 1830 and here given complete in Walter Clark's translation of 1895, it describes Napoleon's habits of dressing, eating, bathing and working, his tempers and kindnesses, his treatment of Josephine, Marie Louise and his mistresses, the court at the Tuileries, Saint-Cloud and Fontainebleau, and the campaigns from Marengo to Russia and the fall of Paris as seen from the imperial tent. Constant's book, written with professional help, is gossipy, admiring and full of details found nowhere else. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy is a public-domain work, here in the translation by Walter Clark. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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