Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon''s Life in His Own Words (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Corsican: A Diary of Napoleon''s Life in His Own Words<br><br>A few words are needed to explain What this book is and What it is not.<br><br>The matter with the exception of the few bracketed passages is derived entirely from Napoleon''s own words written and spoken. But there are abbreviations and transpositions of words and of dates.<br><br>The abbreviations are not shown for the reason that they are of constant recurrence and this general warn ing is therefore substituted for the usual typographical indication.<br><br>The transpositions of date are made for the purpose of maintaining the journal form and belong in all except rare cases to one of the two following classes: first the placing of the details of an event that were written a day or two after it at the very day of that event; secondly the placing of a statement uttered at St. Helena forward under the date of the event itself. Of this second class there are not many instances.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.