Napoleon: A Biography

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Sicily after IJIJ (1968). The consequences m Switzerland can be
followed in ]. Courvoisier, Le Marechal Berthier et sa principaute de
Neuchdtel (Paris 1959).
But by far the greatest changes took place in Germany with the
formation of the Confederation of the Rhine. Representative titles are M.
Dunan, L 'Allemagne de Ia Revolution et de !'Empire (Paris 1954); A.
Rambaud, L 'Allemagne franraise sous Napoleon I (Paris 1897); C.
Schmidt, Le Grand Duche de Berg (Paris 1905). Pointers can also be
extracted from H.A.L. Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship -
Germany (Oxford 1902); J.J. Sheehan, German History, I770-I866
(Oxford 1989); H. Kohn, Prelude to Nation States; the French and German
Experience, IJ8c)-I8IS (Princeton 1967) and H. Schmitt, 'Germany
without Prussia: a closer look at the Confederation of the Rhine', German
Studies Review 6 ( 1983) pp.9-39. The last days of the Holy Roman
Empire are described in ]. Gagliardo, Reich and Nation: the Holy Roman
Empire as Idea and Reality, IJ6J-I8o6 (Bloomington, Indiana 1980).

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Important printed primary sources for the years 1 8o6--o7 include the
Savary memoirs: Jean Frans;ois Boulart, Memoires militaires (Paris 1892);
Guillaume Lorencez, Souvenirs militaires (Paris 1902); Etienne Pasquier,
Memoires (Paris 1895); P.G. Levasseur, Commentaires de Napoleon (Paris
1851); A. Saint-Chamans, Memoires (Paris 1896); Choderlos de Laclos,
Garnets demarche (Paris 1912 ); Louis Frans;ois Lejeune, Memoires (1895);
Pierre Frans;ois Puffeney, Souvenirs d'un grognard (Dole 1891); Jean­
Marie Putigny, Putigny, grognard d'empire (Paris 1950).
The outbreak of war with Prussia and the Jena campaign are
comprehensively covered in Jean Tarnie and Jean Carlos Carmigniani,
Napoleon et l'Alle magne: La Prusse I8o6 (Paris 1984); P.N. Maude, The
Jena Campaign I8o6 (1909); E.F. Henderson, Blucher and the Uprising of
Prussia against Napoleon, I8o6-I8IS (1911); F.L. Petre, Napoleon's
Conquest of Prussia, I8o6 (1972); David Chandler, Jena I8o6: Napoleon
destroys Prussia (1993). There is good background in C.E. White, The
Enlightened Soldier. Scharnhorst and the Miltarische Gesellschaft in Berlin,
I8oi-I8os (NY 1989). Clausewitz's views are contained in Michael
Howard, Clausewitz (Oxford 1983) and R. Parkinson, Clausewitz. A
Biography (1971) and Davout's heroic action at Auerstiidt is analysed in
Daniel Reichel, Davout et !'art de Ia guerre (Paris 1975). See also Pierre
Foucart, Campagne de Prusse, I8o6, 2 vols (Paris 1890); Henry Houssaye,
Jena (Paris 1912 ): Jean Thiry, lena (Paris 1964); Henri Bonnal, La

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