Napoleon: A Biography

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Remarks on Napoleon's personality are scattered throughout the
psychoanalytical literature, with Ernest Jones and Freud himself espe­
cially prominent. Jung's views on 'enantiodromia' can be found at CW. 7
pp.111-11J.


CHAPTER FIVE

The siege of Toulon ushers in the most important source of all for
Napoleon's life: Correspondance de Napoleon I, 32 vols (Paris 1858-70).
Other valuable primary sources are F.A. Doppet, Memoires (Paris 1797);
Memoires du marechal Marmont, due de Raguse, de I7 92 a I84I, 9 vols
(Paris 1857); Claude-Victor Perrin, Extraits des Memoires Inedites de feu
(Paris 1846); J. Barrow, The Lift and Correspondence of Sir Sidney Smith
(1848). For Junot at Toulon see Marie-Joseph Emmanuel de las Cases,
Memorial de Saint-Helene ou journal ou se trouve consigne ... tout ce qu 'a
dit et fait Napoleon ... du 20 juin IBIS au 25 novembre I8I6, ed. M.
Dunan (Paris 1822).
For Toulon see also Paul Cottin, Toulon et les Anglais (Paris 1893); C.J.
Fox, Napoleon and the Siege of Toulon (1902); D.J.M. du Teil, L'icole
d'Artillerie d'Auxonne et le siege de Toulon (Paris 1897). For the dithering
commander-in-chief consult A. Chuquet, Dugommier (Paris 1904). The
careers of those Napoleon met at Toulon can be followed in C.H.
Barault-Roullon, Le Marechal Suchet, due d'Albufuera (Paris 1854);
Fran�ois Rousseau, La Carriere du marechal Suchet, due d'Albufoera (Paris
1898); R. Christophe, Le marechal Marmont, Due de Raguse (Paris 1968).
For Napoleon's life immediately before and after Toulon, as also the
progress of his family see Paul Gaffarel, Les Bonaparte a Marseille,
I79J-I 797 (Marseilles 1905); P. Masson, Marseille et Napoleon (Paris
1920); 0. Lemoine, Le Capitaine Bonaparte a Avignon (1899); 0.
Connelly, The Gentle Bonaparte; a Biography of Joseph, Napoleon's Elder
Brother (NY 1968). For Joseph's relations with the Clary family see F.
Verang, La Famille Clary et Oscar II (Marseilles 1893).
Napoleon's plans for operations in Italy are analysed in C. Camon, La
Premiere Manoeuvre de Napoleon (Paris 1937) and L. Krebs & H. Moris,
Campagnes dans les Alpes pendant Ia Revolution I792-I 793 (Paris 1893).
See also J. Godechot, La Grande Nation (Paris 1936). The political
commissars are convincingly treated in H. Wallon, Les Representants du
Peuple en Mission (Paris 1899). Napoleon's private life is difficult to pin
down at this period, but A. Thierry, 'Un amour inconnu de Napoleon',
Revue des Deux Mondes, 15 November 1940, is useful.
Thermidor, the fall of Robespierre, and the consequences of both can

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