NAPOLEON’S LETTERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 263, 6 November 1934, Page 5

NAPOLEON’S LETTERS

A REMARKABLE DOSSIER ••NAP.’’ WA 5 A DE VO UT LO VER LONDON, Nov. 4. A i'‘markable dossier, exciting the curiosity of historians containing 318 of Napoleon’s letters to the Empress Marie Louise, is being offered for sale at Sothebys in [December. The letters include 122 written during the 191 terrible days of the Russian campaign. The ownership of the letters which is I believed will not be published, is a I secret. j A brief precis of the letters show's that Napoleon was nonchalant during the horrors of the retreat from Moscow, the letters devoting little attention to the loss of 90,000 men. He was apparently worrying only because the Russians may have captured some of his wife’s letters. All show that Napoleon was a devout lover, telling Marie to be gay and happy and never doubt his constant worship. The last letters of the scries were written from the island of Elba, and express a longing to clasp his wife and son in his arms. The earliest is a fluttering courtship of Marie early in 1810, before he had met her.