The official story of how Napoleon met Eugene de Beauharnais.

We’ve been reading the memoirs of the finicky and high strung Hortense de Beauharnais Bonaparte. 

 

Hortense rips into her stepfather Napoleon for his innumerable faults. But her brother Eugene? Hortense cannot find a harsh word for her brother.

 

During the French Revolution, Hortense and Eugene were severely traumatized by the execution of their father, Alexandre de Beauharnais. When the creepy officials said they were going to take the sword of their father away, Eugene went to an important general named Bonaparte to plead to keep it. 

 

Napoleon said he was so impressed with this youth that he wanted to meet the mother who inspired her boy to possess such a depth of sentiment.

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Listen to how it happened here: 

 

 https://youtu.be/9OwUW3hkA1o

Memoirs of Napoleon’s Stepdaughter Hortense, Book 2, 160-170.

Unrest seems to be rising in Paris. The Allies refuse to honor the terms of the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

 

This Series is about exposing the Truth concerning Napoleon. We are looking for the congruent story across different Napoleon Memoirs.



The beginning of the Memoir we are currently reading can be found here.


The Caulaincourt Memoir is here.


The Marchand Memoir is here.


The Hortense Bonaparte Memoir is here.


All writers of these memoirs are considered exceptionally honest. All essentially lived with Napoleon. You will see that Napoleon is the same person in all of these accounts. I’m doing this because I believe this is important and that our whole present world-in-crisis comes out of this True story.


To corroborate our narrative from the perspective of our opponents, I offer you Tolstoy’s War and Peace:

https://youtu.be/TzH_VtP4JC4


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