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Updated: June 9, 2025
But the courage of Marmont saved everything: It would be impossible to convey any idea of the manner in which he was received by us at Talleyrand's when he related the particulars of what had occurred at Versailles. On the evening of the day on which Marmont had acted so nobly it was proposed that the army should adopt the white cockade.
Behind them in the plains of Waterloo the cannon still was roaring: de Marmont was on his way to redeem the fallen fortunes of the hero whom he worshipped and to win imperial regard, imperial favours, fortune and glory wherewith to conquer a girl's obstinacy. St.
This ended by the treaty of peace, he filled Spain once more with his veterans, increasing the strength of the army there to 300,000 men, under his ablest generals, Soult, Massena, Ney, Marmont, Macdonald and others.
The horse could with the utmost ease have headed Trant off and trotted into Celorico while the infantry fell on him, and but for the grossest blundering the militia as a fighting force should have been wiped out of existence. But blunders dogged Marmont throughout this campaign. The day was a rainy one, and the militia, finding their powder wet, ran for the ford like sheep.
Until dawn men and women paraded the streets singing the "Marseillaise" and shouting "Vive l'Empereur!" In a small room, simply furnished but cosy and comfortable, the great adventurer, who had conquered half the world and lost it and had now set out to conquer it again, sat with half a dozen of his most faithful friends: Cambronne and Raoul, Victor de Marmont and Emery.
He is a widower; but Mademoiselle Mars, of the Emperor's theatre, consoles him for the loss of his wife. General Marmont accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, and distinguished himself at the capture of Malta, and when, in the following year, the siege of St.
I saw him one day after he had had an interview with the King; I think it was on the 6th or 7th of March. After some conversation on the landing of Napoleon, and the means of preventing him from reaching Paris, Marmont said to me, "This is what I dwelt most strongly upon in the interview I have just had with the King.
We must try and find out what Fourier means to do as soon as he realises that the Emperor is marching on Grenoble: and then we must act accordingly and trust to luck and good fortune." "And to the Emperor's star," rejoined Emery earnestly; "it is once more in the ascendant. But the matter of the money is a serious one, de Marmont. You will deal with it seriously?"
The Emperor's three Commissioners that is to say, Marshals Macdonald and Ney and the Duke of Vicenza had informed Marmont that they would dine with him as they passed through Essonne, and would acquaint him with all that had happened at Fontainebleau.
Situation of Bonaparte during the events of the 30th and 31st of March His arrival at Fontainebleau Plan of attacking Paris Arrival of troops at Fontainebleau The Emperor's address to the Guard Forfeiture pronounced by the Senate Letters to Marmont Correspondence between Marmont and Schwartzenberg Macdonald informed of the occupation of Paris Conversation between the Emperor and Macdonald at Fontainebleau Beurnonville's letter Abdication on condition of a Regency Napoleon's wish to retract his act of abdication Macdonald Ney, and Caulaincourt sent to Paris Marmont released from his promise by Prince Schwartzenberg.
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