LIBRARY UNVRSTYOF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO NAPOLEON'S LETTERS TO JOSEPHINE "When'all the lesser tumults, and lesser men of our age, shall have passed away into the darkness oj oblivion, history will still inscribe one mighty era with the majestic name of Napoleon." LOCKHART (in Lang's "Life and Letters ofJ. G. Lockhart," 1897, vol. i. 170). NAPOLEON'S LETTERS TO JOSEPHINE FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES SOCIAL, HISTORICAL, AND CHRONOLOGICAL, FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES BY HENRY HALL FOLJAMBE F.R.Hisr.S. 1901 LONDON: M. DENT & CO. J. NEW YORK : E. P. BUTTON fr CO. Printed by BALLANTTNE, HANSON tS* Co. At the Ballantyne Press