Napoleon: A Biography

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literature of its own. Representative titles include: G.P. Gooch, Germany
and the French Revolution (I92o); H. Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (N.Y.
I945); C. Langsam, The Napoleonic Wars and German Nationalism in
Austria (N.Y. I 930 ); A. Robert, L 'I dee nationale autrichienne et les guerres
de Napoleon (Paris I933); E.N. Anderson, Nationalism and the Cultural
Crisis in Prussia, 1806-1815 (N.Y. I939); M. Boucher, Le Sentiment
National en Allemagne (Paris I947); G.S. Ford, Stein and the Era of
Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 (Princeton I922); J. Droz, L'Allemagne et Ia
Revolution Francaise (Paris I949); Vidal de Ia Blanche, La Regeneration de
Ia Prusse apresJena (Paris I9Io); W.M. Simon, The Failure ofthe Prussian
Reform Movement, 1807-1819 (N.Y. I97I); G. Cavaignac, La Formation
de Ia Prusse Contemporaine (Paris I89I); R. Ergang, Herder and the
Foundations of German Nationalism (N.Y. I9I3); R. Berdahl, The Politics
of the Prussian Nobility; the Development of a Conservative Ideology,
1770-1848 (Princeton I988); W. Shanahan, Prussian Military Reforms,
1786-1813 (N.Y. I945); P. Paret, Yorck and the Era of Prussian Reform,
1807-1815 (Princeton I966); H. Kohn, The Mind of Germany (I96I).
In many ways the key figure in I8I3 was Metternich, and his attitudes
have been exhaustively studied. Apart from the biographies already cited,
the following are useful: Henry Kissinger, A World Restored (Boston
I957); Bertier de Sauvigny, Metternich et son Temps (Paris I959) E.
Kraehe, Napoleon's German Policy (Princeton I963); C. Buckland,
Metternich and the British Government from 1809 to 1813 (I932); E.
Gillick, Europe's Classic Balance of Power; a Case History of the Theory and
Practice of One of the Great Concepts of European Statecraft (Ithaca, N.Y.
I955); M. Paleologue, Romantisme et Diplomatie (Paris I924). The fa mous
interview in Dresden has to be pieced together from a number of primary
sources, many of which contradict each other, as, e.g. A.J.F. Fain,
Manuscrit de 1813 (Paris I824); Clemens Metternich, Memoirs (I88o); J.
Grabowski, Mem oires Militaires (Paris I907).
A number of the primary sources listed with reference to the Russian
campaign of I812 continue the story into the debacle in I8I3. Other first­
hand accounts include 0. von Odeleben, A Circumstantial Narrative of the
Campaign in Saxony (I82o); A. Brett-James's collection of eyewitnesses in
Europe against Napoleon; the Leipzig Campaign 1813 (1970); Georges
Bertin, La Campagne de 1813 d'apres des temoins oculaires (Paris I896);
Erckman Chatrian, Un Conscrit de 1813 (Paris I977); Denis Charles
Parquin, De Ia Paix de Vienne a Fontainebleau: Souvenirs 180(j-181 4
(Paris I9I I); Planat de Ia Faye, Souvenirs (Paris I895); Eugene Vitrolles,
Memoires (Paris I883); C.L.M. Lanrezac, Memoires: Lutzen (Paris I904);
Jomini, Precis politique et militaire des campagnes de 1812 a 1814 (Paris

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