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The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799 (c2002), by Wayne Hanley (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
Napoleon and Maneuver Warfare (Harmon Lectures in military history, #28; CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1985), by Steven T. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
Minutes of a Conversation With Napoleon Bonaparte, During His Residence at Elba, in January 1815 (London: Ridgway, 1839), by John Henry Vivian (page images at HathiTrust)
Études sur Napoléon (2 volumes in French; Paris: Debecourt, 1841), by Marie Élie Guillaume de Baudus
The History of Napoleon Bonaparte (2 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co.; New York: Harper and Bros., 1855), by John S. C. Abbott
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
Historic and Other Doubts: or, The Non-Existence of Napoleon Proved (London: E. W. Allen, [1885]), by J.-B. Pérès, ed. by Lily, trans. by Amy Levy, contrib. by Richard Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte, by J. G. Lockhart (Gutenberg text)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (4 volumes; New York: The Century Co., 1915), by William Milligan Sloane
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, ed. by Ramsay Weston Phipps (Gutenberg text)
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London, by Stewarton (Gutenberg text)
Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements (New York and London: Macmillan, 1903), by Thomas E. Watson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Napoleon and His Court (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by C. S. Forester (page images at HathiTrust)
Napoleon, the Empress and the Artist: The Story of Napoleon, Josephine's Garden at Malmaison, Redouté and the Australian Plants, by Jill, Duchess of Hamilton (PDF at Wayback Machine)
Memoirs of Constant, First Valet de Chamber of the Emperor, on the Private Life of Napoleon, His Family and His Court (4 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1895), by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, contrib. by Imbert de Saint-Amand
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Walter Clark (Gutenberg text)
Souvenirs du Prince Charles de Clary-et-Aldringen: Trois Mois a Paris Lors du Mariage de l'Empereur Napoléon Ier et de l'Archiduchesse Marie-Louise (second edition, in French; Paris: Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1914), by Karl Joseph von Clary und Aldringen, contrib. by Oskar Mitis and Claude Emmanuel Henri Marie Pimodan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Representative Men, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Gutenberg text)
Representative Men: Seven Lectures (Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1894), by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Adversaries

Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (London: Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein (Gutenberg text)
Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (New York: Collins and Co. and C. S. Van Winkle, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein
- multiple formats at archive.org
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The Two Great Retreats of History (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1899), ed. by D. H. Montgomery, contrib. by George Grote and Philippe-Paul Ségur (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
Secret Societies and the French Revolution, Together With Some Kindred Studies (London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Una Pope-Hennessy
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Bibliography

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (4 volumes; New York: The Century Co., 1915), by William Milligan Sloane

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Captivity

Memorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena (8 parts in 4 volumes; London: H. Colburn and co., 1823), by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Napoleon's Appeal to the British Nation, on His Treatment at Saint Helena, by Charles-Tristan Montholon and Emperor of the French Napoleon I (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Recollections of Napoleon (based on the 1844 first edition, with added illustrations), by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Contemporaries

Secret Memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte (second edition; London: H. Colburn et al., 1815), by Charles Doris (page images at HathiTrust)
Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1827), by Catherine Hyde Gouvion Broglie Scolari and Louis François Joseph Bausset-Roquefort
Medallic History of Napoleon: A Collection of All the Medals, Coins, and Jettons Related to His Actions and Reign (bound with supplement volumes; London: Printed for the editor, 1819-1821), by A. L. Millin, trans. by James Millingen
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France, From the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte on the First of March, 1815, Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII (1st edition; London: J. Murray, 1815), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
Memorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena (8 parts in 4 volumes; London: H. Colburn and co., 1823), by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, ed. by Ramsay Weston Phipps (Gutenberg text)
Recollections of Napoleon (based on the 1844 first edition, with added illustrations), by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (London: Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein (Gutenberg text)
Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (New York: Collins and Co. and C. S. Van Winkle, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot, Late Lieutenant-General in the French Army (2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Arthur John Butler
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Memoirs of Constant, First Valet de Chamber of the Emperor, on the Private Life of Napoleon, His Family and His Court (4 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1895), by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin, contrib. by Imbert de Saint-Amand
The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, by Baron de Marbot, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, by Louis Constant Wairy, trans. by Walter Clark (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Correspondence

Tendresses Impériales (in French; Paris: E. Sansot et cue., 1913), by Emperor of the French Napoleon I, contrib. by Abel Gri
- Gutenberg text
- page images at Gallica
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812: For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources (London: J. M. Dent and Co.; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1901), by Emperor of the French Napoleon I, ed. by Henry Foljambe Hall (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Death and burial

The Second Funeral of Napoleon, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Drama

The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War With Napoleon, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, The Time Covered by the Action Being About Ten Years, by Thomas Hardy (Gutenberg text)
Napoleon Bonaparte, by Alexandre Dumas, trans. by Frank J. Morlock (HTML at cadytech.com)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Elba and the Hundred Days, 1814-1815

A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France, From the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte on the First of March, 1815, Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII (1st edition; London: J. Murray, 1815), by Helen Maria Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Campaign of 1815, Chiefly in Flanders (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1908), by Walter H. James (multiple formats at archive.org)
La Campagne de 1815: Les Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Waterloo et Wavre (2 volumes, in French: Brussels, J. Lebrègue et cie, 1910), by Louis Navez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Exhibitions

The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), ed. by Katell Le Bourhis, contrib. by Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Philippe Séguy, Clare Le Corbeiller, Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, Jean Coural, Chantal Gastinel-Coural, Raoul Brunon, Colombe Samoyault-Verlet, and Michele Majer (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org)

Filed under: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Fiction

The Companions of Jehu, by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
Folk-Tales of Napoleon: Napoleonder, From the Russian; The Napoleon of the People, From the French of Honore de Balzac (1902), ed. by George Kennan, contrib. by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov and Honoré de Balzac (Gutenberg text)
Napoleon and Blucher, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Francis Jordan (Gutenberg text)
The Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by W. Binet (Gutenberg text)
The First Republic: or, The Whites and the Blues (2 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1894), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
It May Happen Yet: A Tale of Bonaparte's Invasion of England (London: The author, 1899), by Edmund Lawrence
Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia: An Historical Novel (1908), by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Francis Jordan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
War and Peace (4 volumes in 2; New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., c1889), by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Nathan Haskell Dole
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude
- HTML at friends-partners.org
- Gutenberg text
Louisa of Prussia and Her Times, by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Francis Jordan (Gutenberg text)

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