1959). The imperial court occupies much of Philip Mansel, The Eagle in
Splendour: The Court of France IJ89-I8Jo (Cambridge 1988).CHAPTER FIFTEENAs might be expected, memoir literature comes into its own in the
campaigns of r8os. For the projected invasion of England those of
Hortense and A. Bigarre, Memoires (r898) are particularly relevant. On
Austerlitz the great memoir source is Auxonne Theodore Thiard,
Souvenirs diplomatiques et militaires de !804 a I8o6 (Paris I900) which
would be supplemented by Paul Thiebault, Memoires publies sous les
auspices de sa jille Mile Claire Thiebault et d'apres le manuscrit original par
F. Calmettes (Paris r9ro); Capitaine Coignet, Les cahiers du capitaine
Coignet, publies d'apres le manuscrit original par Lordean, ed. Mistler (Paris
1968); Baron de Marbot, Memoires du General Baron de Marbot, 3 vols
(Paris r898). But this by no means exhausts the memoir literature for
r8os. In this heyday of the Grande Armee, Napoleon's Correspondance
needs to be supplemented by E. Picard and L. Tuetey, eds, Correspond
ance inedite de Napoleon conservee aux Archives de Ia Guerre I804-I8IO
(I9I3).
Fundamental for an understanding of the naval campaign of r8o5 is
Arthur T. Mahan, The Influence of Seapower upon the French Revolution
and Empire (r892). See also his Life of Nelson (r898); J.S. Corbett, The
Naval Campaign of 18os is a clear guide. A. Thomazi, Napoleon et ses
marins (Paris 1950) underlines the problems Napoleon faced. The
multivolume work by Desbrieres already cited is fundamental fo r an
understanding of Napoleon's (changing) naval strategy, as is Longmate
(op. cit) for the English side of things. See also Peter Lloyd, The French
are coming: The invasion scare of 18os (r99r); Jean-Carlos Carmigniani
and Jean Tranie, Napoleon et l'Angleterre IJ9J-I8IS (Paris 1994); Richard
Glover, Britain at Bay. Deftnce against Bonaparte, I80J-I8I 4 (1973);
Jeremy Black and P. Woodfine, eds. The British Navy and the Use of
Naval Power in the Eighteenth Century (Leicester 1988) and C.N.
Parkinson, Britannia Rules: the Classic Age of Naval History, IJ9J-I8IS
(1977). Trafalgar, tangential to Napoleon's story, has been overwritten:
Rene Maine, Trafalgar (NY r96o); Alan Schorn, Trafalgar (1990) and
David Howarth, Trafalgar: the Nelson Touch (r969) and D. Pope, England
Expects: Trafalgar (1959) are the best-known titles in English but are
merely the tip of an iceberg.
The genesis of the Third Coalition can be followed in: J. Holland
Rose, ed., Select dispatches from the British Foreign Office Archives relating