Perhaps unfamiliar words in tonight’s Méneval Napoleon reading.

The beginning of the memoir is here.

The whole Napoleon Memoir Series is available here.

Tonight’s reading is here

If you’d like to read along on a Kindle device, the link is here

Melzi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Melzi_d'Eril

Bruix 

Ultramontane  

A ferruled stick

Andrea Doria