The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot
Translated by Oliver C. Colt
Translated by Oliver C. Colt
Chap. 1. Origins of my family. My father joins the bodyguard. Thede Certain family. Life at Lariviere. Episode in infancy.
Chap. 2. Outbreak of revolution. My father's attitude. He rejoinsthe army. I go to Mlle. Mongalvi. My life as a boarder.
Chap. 3. My father is posted to Toulouse. He takes me with him.
The convoy of aristocrats. Life at Toulouse. I am taken to
Soreze.
Chap. 4. Life at Soreze. Early hardships. Visit of representativeof the people.
Chap. 5. I join my family in Paris. My father is given command ofthe 17th division in Paris. He refuses to join with Sieyes andhands the command to Lefebvre.
Chap. 6. My father is posted to Italy. How my career is begun. Ibecome a Hussar.
Chap. 7. My father leaves. Meeting with Bonaparte at Lyon. Anadventure on the Rhone. The cost of a Republican banquet. I ampresented to my commanding officer.
Chap. 8. Arrival at Nice. My mentor Pertelay. I become a trueHussar. I join the "clique". My first duel. We rustle somecattle. The "Clique".
Chap. 9. How I get immediate promotion. The capture of 17 enemy
Hussars.
Chap. 10. Campaign in Piedmont. General Macard. Capture of enemycannons. I am promoted to Sous-lieutenant. I become aide de campto my father.
Chap. 11. Retreat of the right wing of the army to Genoa. Myfather wounded. The siege. My friend Trepano. Death of my father.Famine and fighting.
Chap. 12. Episodes in the siege. Fate of Austrian captives.
Chap. 13. Napoleon crosses the St. Bernard. Massena yields.
Marengo. I return to my family. My extreme prostration.
Chap. 14. I am temporary aide de camp to Bernadotte. We go to
Tours.
Chap. 15. At Brest and Rennes. I am posted to the 23rd Chasseurs,in Portugal. Journey from Nantes to Salamanca. We form the rightwing of the Spanish army. Return to France.
Chap. 16. On the road from Bayonne to Toulouse. The inspection.
Chap. 17. The events at Rennes. My brother Adolphe is involvedand is sent to prison. Death of my brother Theodore.
Chap. 18. The school at Versailles. My mother's brothers.
Chap. 19. Preparations for invasion of Britain. I become aide decamp to Augereau.
Chap. 20. Augereau.
Chap. 21. From Bayonne to Brest. 1804. Pichegru. Death of Ducd'Enghien. Bonaparte becomes emperor.
Chap. 22. 1805. Institution of Legion of Honour. Camp at
Boulogne. I am made lieutenant. Death of my brother Felix.
Russia and Austria declare war.
Chap. 23. The army heads for the Rhine. Mission to Massena.
Jellachich surrenders. The Hungarian Colonel.
Chap. 24. The march to Vienna. The battle at Dirnstein. Lannesand Murat bluff their way across the Danube.
Chap. 25. Hollabrunn. I bring the flags captured at Breganz tothe Emperor. The danger of a white lie.
Chap. 26. The Prussian Ambassador. Austerlitz. I save a Russiansergeant.
Chap. 27. Meeting of the Emperors. Return to my unit. Darmstadtand Frankfurt.
Chap. 28. Mission to Prussia. Sit