9. “This Grand and Glorious Undertaking”: Boulogne or Bust

0.     Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 83.

0.     Baptiste Capefigue, L’Europe depuis l’avénement du Roi Louis-Philippe Histoire des années 1830 à 1847 (Paris: Editions Chapitre, 1847), vol. II, p. 288.

0.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 171.

0.     From the subsequent court deposition, Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 173.

0.     For details on Montholon’s remarkable career, see Alan Schom, op. cit., pp. 775–779, 783–787.

0.     Alan Schom, Trafalgar, Countdown to Battle, 1803–1805 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 100–107.

0.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 110 ff., here gives the best coverage of these events.

0.     Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 166–169, where he lists the members of the expedition.

0.     Captain Crow later testified to the heavy drinking of most of the men during the crossing. Adrian Dansette thought that Montholon had been serving as an informer for Minister of the Interior Charles de Rémusat. Hardly implausible.

0.   Cf. depositions made by Lieutenant Bally and the local prefect, Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 175. Hippolyte François Athale Sébastien Bouffet de Montauban, age forty-six, “Colonel of Volunteers.” All conversations given here come from depositions taken following the arrest of Louis Napoléon and his men. See also Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 174 ff.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 162–164.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 162, 164, 176, and for the events taking place hereafter, pp. 176–180.

0.   Le National, 7 août 1840.

0.   Thirria, vol. I, pp. 180–183.

0.   Signed by War Minister General Amadée de Cubières, Thirria, vol. I, p. 182: Circulaire du Ministère de la Guerre, 7 août 1840.

0.   La Presse, 8 août 1840.

0.   Journal des Débats, 7 août 1840.

0.   Quoted in Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 188–189.

0.   Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 71. The quote, “to know how to choose the right moment,” by Napoléon, in Schom, Napoléon Bonaparte, p. 453.

0.   La Gazette de France, and Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 187.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 189 et seq. Commission d’Instruction.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 203.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 190–193. The quotes that follow are from Leopold’s speech.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., v. I, pp, 193–194.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., for testimony of the proceedings, pp. 200–201, and Milza, op. cit., p. 133. Of those declining to vote against Napoléon III: cf. Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 105–196. Among those voting for conviction (Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 203–205)—Count Portalis; the Duke de Broglie; Count Molé; Count de Ségur, the son of General Exelmans; the Marquis de Rochembeau, Count Siméon. (Morny’s father, Charles de Flahaut, voted against the conviction.)