DUCASSE, PIERRE EMMANUEL ALBERT, BARON (18131893)

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DUCASSE, PIERRE EMMANUEL ALBERT, BARON (18131893) , French historian, was born at Bourges on the 16th of November 1813. In 1849 he became aide-de-camp to Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-king of Westphalia, then

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of the Invalides, on whose commission he wrote Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de la campagne de 181-2 en Russie (1852). Subsequently he published Memoires du roi Joseph (18531855), and, as a sequel, Histoire des negotiations diplomatiques relatives aux traites de Morfontaine, de Luneville et d'Amiens, together with the unpublished correspondence of the emperor

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

I. with Cardinal Fesch (18551856). From papers in the possession of the imperial family he compiled Memoires du prince

Eugene

EUGENE

(1858186o) and Refutation des memoires du duc de Raguse (1857),

part

PART

of which was inserted by authority at the end of volume ix. of the Memoires. He was attache to Jerome's son, Prince

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, during the Crimean War, and wrote a Precis historique des operations militaires en Orient, de mars 1854 d octobre 1855 (1857), which was completed many years later by a volume entitled La Crimee et Sebastopol de 1853 d 1856, documents intimes et inedits, followed by the complete

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST,
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1789-1846)

of the French

officers

OFFICERS

killed or wounded in that war (1892). He was also employed by Prince Napoleon on the Correspondance of Napoleon I., and afterwards published certain letters, purposely omitted there, in the Revue historique. These documents, subsequently collected in Les Rois freres de Napoleon (1883), as well as the

Journal

JOURNAL
JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

de la reine Catherine de Westphalie (1893), were edited with little care and are not entirely trustworthy, but their publication threw much light on Napoleon I. and his entourage, His Souvenirs d'un officier du 2e Zouaves, and Les Dessous du coup d'etat (1891), contain many piquant anecdotes, but at times degenerate into mere tittle-tattle.

Ducasse

DUCASSE, PIERRE EMMANUEL ALBERT, BARON (1813–1893)

was the author of some slight novels, and from the practice of this form of literature he acquired that levity which appears even in his most serious historical publications.

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