Sainte-Hélène; journal inédit de 1815-1818
Posted: March 17th, 2023, 11:06 pm
Sainte-Hélène: journal inédit de 1815-1818
Author: Gourgaud, Gaspard, Baron, 1783-1852.
Published: Paris, E. Flammarion [1899]
(2 volumes on hathitrust, google, also archive.org)
Language: French
Link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000607068
The English edition is from 1932 so not yet in the public domain. But the original French version of Baron Gourgaud's journal (written privately not for publication), was published in 1899, 47 years after his death. General Gourgaud wrote it in 1815-1818 while on St. Helena with Napoleon Bonaparte and a few other French companions. Napoleon knew that Gourgaud was recording their conversations for a book, but he didn't know Gourgaud was also pouring out his heart in a journal where he recorded his massive disappointment in Napoleon, their arguments (some pretty heated), humiliations he was enduring from Napoleon, his despair, loneliness, boredom, and hatred for one of the other French guys. This sounds depressing but it is quite entertaining because Gourgaud was a very dramatic person and had a good sense of humor despite everything.
Author: Gourgaud, Gaspard, Baron, 1783-1852.
Published: Paris, E. Flammarion [1899]
(2 volumes on hathitrust, google, also archive.org)
Language: French
Link: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000607068
The English edition is from 1932 so not yet in the public domain. But the original French version of Baron Gourgaud's journal (written privately not for publication), was published in 1899, 47 years after his death. General Gourgaud wrote it in 1815-1818 while on St. Helena with Napoleon Bonaparte and a few other French companions. Napoleon knew that Gourgaud was recording their conversations for a book, but he didn't know Gourgaud was also pouring out his heart in a journal where he recorded his massive disappointment in Napoleon, their arguments (some pretty heated), humiliations he was enduring from Napoleon, his despair, loneliness, boredom, and hatred for one of the other French guys. This sounds depressing but it is quite entertaining because Gourgaud was a very dramatic person and had a good sense of humor despite everything.