Record Office (London) avec 38 lettres inedites de Pasquale Paoli (Ajaccio
I983) is fu ndamental. Thad E. Hall, France and the Eighteenth-Century
Corsican Question (NY I97I) provides a useful overview. The first volume
of Dumouriez's memoirs, La vie et les memoires du general Dumouriez, 4
vols (Paris 1823) deals with the French invasion of Corsica in 1768, and a
good supplement is Christine Roux, Les Makis de Ia resistance Corse
17 72-1 778 (Paris I984)
Chateaubriand's eccentric view of Napoleon can be found in Memoires
d'outre-tombe (Paris 1902) and Taine's in Les origines de Ia France
contemporaine (Paris I89o). For other fa r-fetched and mythological views
of Napoleon, especially after I815, see J. Deschamps, Sur Ia legende de
Napoleon (Paris I93I): J. Lucas-Brereton, Le Culte de Napoleon,
1815-18 48 (Paris I96o); A. Guerard, Reflections on the Napoleonic Legend
(1924); P. Gonnard, Les Origines de Ia legende napoleonienne (Paris I9o6);
M. Descotes, La Legende de Napoleon et les ecrivains francais au X!Xe
siecle (Paris I967) and Jean Tulard, Le Mythe de Napoleon (Paris I971).
For the views on Napoleon of psychoanalysis and depth psychology see
C. G. Jung, Collected Works, eds Fordham, Adler, McGuire (I979), vols 3,
6, 7, 8, Io, 17, I8; A. Brill, Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis
(I922); Wilhelm Reich, Character Analysis (1950); Freud to Thomas
Mann, 29 November I936. Useful pointers to the Napoleon-Joseph
relationship can be gained fr om Alfred Adler, Problems of Neurosis (I929)
which deals in general with the problems of the second son. For the
likelihood of Letizia's infidelity see (apart fr om Carrington, op. cit) Revue
des Deux Mondes, IS September 1952; Figaro litteraire, I May I954·CHAPTER TWOJean Colin, L 'Education militaire de Napoleon (Paris I9oo) is a good
starting place and can be supplemented by Harold de Fontenay,
Napoleon, Joseph et Lucien Bonaparte au College d'Autun en Bourgogne
(Paris 1869). Other pointers can be found in Anatole de Charmasse, Les
Jesuites au College d'Autun, I6I8-I763 (Paris I884); C. Gaunet, Le College
d'Autun sous les Jesuites (1 618 -1763) et apres eux (Autun I940) and
Bernard Nabonne, Joseph Bonaparte: Le roi philosophe (Paris I949).
For Brienne the following are useful if used with care: A. Assier,
Napoleon a !'ecole de Brienne (Paris 1874); A.N. Petit, Napoleon a Brienne
(Troyes 1839); Albert Babeau, Le Chateau de Brienne (Paris 1877);
Franc;:ois Gilbert de Coston, Biographie des premzires annees de Napoleon
Bonaparte (Paris 1840) and A. Prevost, Les Minimes de Brienne (Paris
19I5). Two journal articles on Napoleon's stay at the Ecole Militaire are