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32
.
Ouvrard,
1809: les Français à Vienne
, pp. 99–105.
33
.
Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, pp. 699–700; Parker,
Three Napoleonic Battles
, pp. 57–8.
34
.
Robert M. Epstein, ‘Patterns of Change and Continuity in Nineteenth-Century Warfare’,
Journal of Military History
, 56:3 (1992), 375–88. Figures in Charles-Gaspard-Louis Saski,
Campagne de 1809 en Allemagne et en Autriche
, 4 vols
(Paris, 1899–1902), iii. p. 380 n. 1; Jean Thiry,
Wagram
(Paris, 1966), p. 140; Parker,
Three Napoleonic Battles
, p. 82.
35
.
Jean-Michel Chevalier,
Souvenirs des guerres napoléoniennes
(Paris, 1970), p. 108, who claims he let out a long ‘cry of pain’ (
cri de douleur
); Chaptal,
Mes souvenirs sur Napoléon
, p. 252. See also Brian Joseph Martin,
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France
(Durham, NH, 2011), pp. 41–7
36
.
Dominique-Jean Larrey,
Mémoires de chirurgie militaire et campagnes
, 4 vols (Paris, 1812–17), iii. pp. 282–5.
37
.
Chevalier,
Souvenirs
, p. 108.
38
.
Cited in Patrick Turnbull,
Napoleon’s Second Empress
(London, 1971), p. 26.
39
.
Stamm-Kuhlmann,
König in Preußens großer Zeit
, pp. 289–90.
40
.
Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. pp. 83–5.
41
.
Savary,
Mémoires
, iv. p. 147.
42
.
On this point, Hauterive,
La police secrète du premier Empire
, v. pp. 99–100 (30 June 1809); Petiteau,
Les Français et l’Empire
, p. 202.
43
.
Chastenay,
Mémoires
, ii. p. 97.
44
.
Cited in Boudon,
Le roi Jérôme
, pp. 340–1.
45
.
Boigne,
Récits d’une tante
, i. pp. 291–2.
46
.
On the battle of Wagram see Petre,
Napoleon and the Archduke Charles
, pp. 351–79; Thiry,
Wagram
; Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, pp. 677–94; Robert M. Epstein,
Napoleon’s Last Victory and the Emergence of Modern War
(Lawrence, Kan., 1994), pp. 129–70; Rothenberg,
Napoleon’s Great Adversary
, pp. 208–16; Gill,
1809: Thunder on the Danube
, iii. pp. 185–264
.
47
.
Ouvrard,
1809: les Français à Vienne
, pp. 163–6.
48
.
Chandler,
Campaigns of Napoleon
, p. 1121.
49
.
Petre,
Napoleon and the Archduke Charles
, pp. 360–1.
50
.
Corr.
xix. n. 15505 (8 July 1809), which states that 1,500 were killed and 3,000 or 4,000 wounded.
51
.
Thiry,
Wagram
, p. 188.
52
.
Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. p. 89.
53
.
Angeli,
Erzherzog Carl
, iv. pp. 553–64.
54
.
On the changing nature of battle see Marie-Cécile Thoral,
From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792–1815
(Basingstoke, 2011), pp. 14–20.
55
.
There are two exceptions: one is a painting by Gros, commissioned by Berthier, who was, after all, given the title ‘Prince of Wagram’ (Brunner,
Antoine-Jean Gros
, pp. 296–302); the other a painting passed to Carle Vernet and never completed (O’Brien,
After the Revolution
, pp. 124, 181–2). Even then, it was a private and not an official commission.
56
.
One such example was the construction of a panorama in Paris, which one critic described as having been so real that he was ‘transported to the scene’ (Maurice Samuels, ‘Realizing the Past: History and the Spectacle in Balzac’s
Adieu
’,
Representations
, 79 (2002), 86).
57
.
Corr.
xix. n. 15894 (3 October 1809); Nicolet,
La fabrique d’une nation
, p. 147.
58
.
Serge Tatistcheff,
Alexandre Ier et Napoléon, d’après leur correspondance inédite, 1801–1812
(Paris, 1891), pp. 465–500; Thiry,
Wagram
, pp. 112–14; Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. p. 73.
59
.
Vandal,
Napoléon et Alexandre
, ii. pp. 95–6; Rey,
Alexandre Ier
, pp. 262–3.
60
.
Domokos Kosáry,
Napoléon et la Hongrie
(Budapest, 1979), pp. 51–3. Schroeder,
Transformation of European Politics
, pp. 282, 366; Ingrao,
The Habsburg Monarchy
, pp. 236–7.
61
.
Corr.
xix. n. 15215 (15 May 1809); Kosáry,
Napoléon et la Hongrie
, pp. 53, 67–71, 75. The Hungarian political elite rejected the proposition.
62
.
Beer,
Zehn Jahre österreichischer Politik
, p. 427; Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. p. 91.
63
.
Scott,
Birth of a Great Power System
, p. 343. According to Sked,
Radetzky
, p. 30, Napoleon attempted to ruin Austrian finances by flooding the country with 300 million Gulden in counterfeit notes, but I have been unable to verify this claim.
64
.
Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. p. 119.
65
.
Cited in Kraehe,
Metternich’s German Policy
, i. p. 119.
66
.
Dunan,
Napoléon et l’Allemagne
, pp. 260–3; Sked,
Radetzky
, p. 27.
67
.
Rapp,
Mémoires
, pp. 112–17; Ernst Borkowsky, ‘Das Schönbrunner Attentat im Jahr 1809 nach unveröfentlichten Quellen’,
Die Grenzboten. Blätter für Deutschland und Belgien
, 57:4 (1898), 293–301; Tulard,
Napoléon: Jeudi 12 octobre 1809
, pp. 85–130; and Jean Tulard, ‘Les attentats contre Napoléon’,
Revue du Souvenir napoléonien
, 391 (1993), 13–14.
68
.
Tulard,
Murat
, p. 158.
69
.
On relations between Napoleon and Pius VII see Lentz,
Nouvelle histoire du Premier Empire
, i. pp. 481–500.
70
.
Corr.
xi. n. 9656 (7 January 1805).

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