TAILIEUCHUNG - HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA, UNDERTAKEN

I have undertaken the task of tracing the History of the Grand Army and its Leader during the year 1812. I address it to such of you as the ices of the North have disarmed, and who can no longer serve their country, but by the recollections of their misfortunes and their glory. Stopped short in your noble career, your existence is much more in the past than in the present; but when the recollections are so great, it is allowable to live solely on them. | HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION TO RUSSIA UNDERTAKEN BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON IN THE YEAR 1812. BY GENERAL COUNT PHILIP DE SEGUR. Quamquam animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit Incipiam . VIRGIL. SECOND EDITION CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED. IN TWO VOLUMES Volume One Volume Two WITH A MAP AND SEVEN ENGRAVINGS. VOL. I. LONDON TREUTTEL AND WURTZ TREUTTEL JUN. AND RICHTER 30 SOHO-SQUARE. 1825. Portrait of Napoleon TO THE VETERANS OF THE GRAND ARMY. COMRADES I have undertaken the task of tracing the History of the Grand Army and its Leader during the year 1812. I address it to such of you as the ices of the North have disarmed and who can no longer serve their country but by the recollections of their misfortunes and their glory. Stopped short in your noble career your existence is much more in the past than in the present but when the recollections are so great it is allowable to live solely on them. I am not afraid therefore of troubling that repose which you have so dearly purchased by placing before you the most fatal of your deeds of arms. Who is there of us but knows that from the depth of his obscurity the looks of the fallen man are involuntarily directed towards the splendor of his past existence even when its light illuminates the shoal on which the bark of his fortune struck and when it displays the fragments of the greatest of shipwrecks For myself I will own that an irresistible feeling carries me back incessantly to that disastrous epoch of our public and private calamities. My memory feels a sort of melancholy pleasure in contemplating and renewing the painful traces which so many horrors have left in it. Is the soul also proud of her deep and numerous wounds Does she delight in displaying them Are they a property of which she has reason to be proud Is it rather that after the desire of knowing them her first wish is to impart her sensations To feel and to excite feeling are not these the most powerful springs of our soul But in short whatever may be the .

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