Author : Claude-François de Méneval
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780265169209
Book Description
Excerpt from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Court of the First Empire, Vol. 2 Assistance, and I asked the Emperor to give me a companion. The idea then came to him to create two posts of Secretary to the Cabinet, and he appointed General Clarke - who, now that the death of the King of Etruria had closed his mission to this prince, was without employment - to one of these places. The Emperor appearing to neglect him, Clarke followed him step by step during his journey in Alsatia, placing himself before him each time that he had the Oppor tunity of recalling himself to his memory. On his return from this short journey, the Emperor told me that, not wishing to interrupt the unity of the work of his private work-room, he had made up his mind to charge the general with the title of Secretary to the Cabinet, with a Special class of work, viz., his corre spondence with the Ministers of War and Marine; and that this would be a notable reduction of my day's work. General Clarke was accordingly estab lished in a private office. But the necessity of sending for him to write to his ministers often kept the Em peror back from making use of his services; in one word, the post degenerated into a sinecure. The sec ond post of Secretary to the Cabinet was also vacant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.