2. A Son and His Father

  1.     Louis Napoléon to M … January 1835, Thirria, op. cit., v. I, p. 10.

  2.     Captain Louis Napoléon Bonaparte to his father, February 7, 1835, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 36. Giraudeau collected several dozen Bonaparte letters, parts of which I quote in this chapter and elsewhere in this work.

  3.     Thirria, op. cit., v. III, p. iii; and an article on this subject in Le Constitutionnel, Sept. 23, 1850.

  4.     Louis Bonaparte to son Louis Napoléon, April 9, 1821, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 20. This was one of several letters published in Le Figaro, Dec. 8, 12, and 13, 1894.

  5.     Louis Napoléon to his father, Nov. 17, 1827, in Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 21, and in Thirria, op. cit., v. I, p. 3.

  6.     Louis Napoléon to his father, June 23, 1828, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 21.

  7.     Louis Napoléon to his father, Jan. 19, 1829, Giraudeau, Ibid., pp. 23–24.

  8.     Louis Napoléon to his son, February, 1829, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 24.

  9.     Louis Napoléon to his father, March 3, 1829, Giraudeau, Ibid., pp. 24–25.