Napoleon's aide-de-camp: memoirs and history

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SÉGUR (Philippe de) Histoire et Mémoires. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1873. In-8°, 529 pp., first volume. Binding absent, marbled edges, spine preserved. Having become Napoleon's aide-de-camp under the Empire and later attached to Joseph's court, Ségur left behind engaging memoirs, reprinted multiple times. He traces in parallel the history of Napoleon and his own life. These well-written recollections have perhaps received more credit than warranted.