Paměti generála barona de Marbot Série

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1. Mémoires du général baron de Marbot 1. Le temps retrouvé

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   • 24 hodin čtení

   " Je l'engage à continuer à écrire pour la défense et la gloire des Armées françaises et en confondre les calomniateurs ", écrivait Napoléon dans son testament. Ainsi les Mémoires de Marbot sont l'épopée des guerres napoléoniennes, de la campagne d'Italie à Waterloo en passant par la Bérésina, vécue par un homme d'action, né soldat, porté aux actes de bravoure, assez réaliste pour conserver en toute circonstance sa simplicité, sa verve et sa franchise. À l'égard de Napoléon, il est d'une fidélité critique et lucide. Il n'admet aucune faiblesse ordinaire ou politique. Il dénonce vivement ses erreurs et son népotisme. Marbot est surtout un remarquable chroniqueur. Ses récits des batailles (Austerlitz, Iéna, Wagram...), par une suite d'images fortes, rapides et colorées, cumulent la clarté de la vision d'ensemble et l'intensité du fait vécu.

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2. The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot - Late Lieutenant General in the French Army

   • Marcellin General Baron De Marbot

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   Perhaps the most famous of all Napoleonic memoirs to be written in any language are those written by Marbot. They stand in a league of their own. Napoleon, himself left a donation of 100,000 to him, for his refutation of General Rogniat's work - to quote Napoleon's will "I recommend him to continue to write in defense of the glory of the French armies, and to confound their calumniators and apostates." So entertaining and full of vivid details that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fictionalized them into his adventures of Brigadier Gerard. In this the first volume of his translated memoirs, it covers his early childhood, born into a military family, to his first steps on the military ladder as a hussar in the 1e Regiment de Hussards (ex-Bercheny). His dash and leadership lead to a commission and appointments on the staff of Generals Augereau and Massena. He writes poignantly of his fathers death at the siege of Genoa (1800) and the privations suffered in the city by the defenders and the inhabitants alike. His career takes him to the battles of Austerlitz, Friedland, Eylau and Aspern-Essling. His narrative is full of anecdotes and vignettes of the great and the good of the Consulate and Empire, he portrays himself in the midst of such luminaries as the Emperor, his Marshals and Generals. Contains portrait of de Marbot from 1812 as a colonel of 23e Hussards, and maps illustrating the 1805, 1806 and 1809 battles.

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