Private Secretary to Napoleon, and Minister of State under the Direc A NEW EDITION, IN ONE VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED FOR SCOTT, WEBSTER, AND GEARY, 36, CHARTERHOUSE SQUARE. ADVERTISEMENT. THE present translation of the Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by M. de Bourrienne, has been undertaken for the purpose of compressing into one volume of the ENGLISH CLASSIC LIBRARY,' the life of perhaps the most extraordinary man the world has ever produced. Bourrienne was eminently qualified to be the biographer of Napoleon; he had lived on terms of the closest intimacy with him from his boyhood; and from the official situation as private secretary which he afterwards held under him when general, consul, and emperor, was present both at the planning and execution of many of the extraordinary deeds which so rapidly succeeded each other during that eventful period. чe was ab1 to observe the gradual development and working out of those striking and brilliant ideas, wh were communicated to him, in the frankness of confidential intimacy, at the moment of their birth, but which were not always matured and acted upon until a subsequent period. 4 he He has stated, that he always had in view the publication of his Memoirs of Napoleon, and that, from an early period, he commenced making notes and collecting documents, so as to preserve a perfect 239830 |