be usefully supplemented by a number of journal articles: J. Don ten ville,
'La Catastrophe du due d'Enghien', Revue des Etudes napoleoniennes
(1925) pp.43-69; G. Caudrillier, 'Le Complot de l'an XII', Revue
Historique 73 (1900) pp.278-86; 74 (1901) pp.257-85; 75 (1902) pp.45-71;
J. Durieux, 'L'arrestation de Cadoudal de la Legion d'honneur', Revue
des Etudes napoleoniennes (1919) pp.237-43. Other useful contributions to
a still only partially solved mystery are: A. Maricourt, La Mort du due
d'Enghien (Paris 1931); J. Picard, Bonaparte et Moreau (Paris 1905); F.
Barbey, La mort de Pichegru (Paris 1909); M. Dupont, Le Tragique Destin
du due d'Enghien (Paris 1938); H. Lachouque, Cadoudal et les Chouans
(Paris 1952); B. Melchior-Bonnet, Le due d'Enghien (Paris 1954).
Two interesting articles chart the passage from consulate to empire: P.
Sagnac, 'L'avenement de Bonaparte a l'Empire', Revue des Etudes
napoleoniennes (1925) pp.133-54 and 193-211 and G. Mauguin, 'Le
plebiscite pour l'heredite imperiale en l'an XII', Revue de l'Jnstitut
Napoleon (1939) p.5-16. For the year 1804 the memoirs by Hortense and
Roederer are especially revealing. The coronation itself is dealt with in
Frederic Masson, Le Sacre et le Couronnement de Napoleon (Paris 1925);
Jose Cabanis, Le Sacre de Napoleon (Paris 1970) and Henri Gaubert, Le
Sacre de Napoleon I (Paris 1964).
Eugene de Beauharnais becomes a significant figure around this time.
His career can be followed in: Arthur Levy, Napoleon et Eugene de
Beauharnais (Paris 1926); Carola Oman, Napoleon's Viceroy: Eugene de
Beauharnais (1966); F. de Bernardy, Eugene de Beauharnais (Paris 1973);
Jean Hanoteau, Le Menage Beauharnais (Paris 1935). The contrast
between the able Eugene and the useless 'Benjamin' Jerome Bonaparte is
one that constantly impresses the student, and there is a vivid account of
Jerome's spinelessness in S. Mitchell, A Family Lawsuit: The Romantic
Story of Elizabeth Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte (NY 1958).
Napoleon's marshals have spawned an industry all of its own. Apart
from Chandler's edited volume Napoleon's Marshals (1987) already cited,
there are L. Chardigny, Les marechaux de Napoleon (Paris 1977)
(concentrating on social origins); J. Valynseele, Les marechaux du Premier
Empire, leur famille et leur descendance (Paris 1957) (for the genealogy of
the marshalate); George Six, Les Generaux de Ia Revolution et de !'Empire
(Paris (1947); E.F. Delderfield, The March of the Twenty-Six (1962) and
A. MacDonell, Napoleon and his Marshals (1934). For individual marshals
see (in addition to the titles cited in the bibl iography for Chapter Seven):
John G. Gallagher, The Iron Marshal: A Biography of Louis N. Davout
(Carbondale, Ill. 1976); H.F.G.L. Hourtoulle, Davout le terrible (Paris
1975); John T. Foster, Napoleon's Marshal: the Life of Michel Ney (N.Y.
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