Produced by Thierry Alberto, Bryan Ness, David Garcia, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Unusual subscripts have been marked with { }, e.g.: V{te} for Vicomte. Bold text has been marked with =.] [Illustration: From a photograph by Braun, Clement & Co. EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE By Pierre Paul Prod'hon.] THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D. _Professor of History in Columbia University_ Revised and Enlarged With Portraits VOLUME IV NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916 Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910 BY THE CENTURY CO. _Published, October, 1910_ CONTENTS CHAPTER Page I. The Last Imperial Victory............................... 1 II. Politics and Strategy.................................. 11 III. The End of the Grand Army.............................. 23 IV. The Frankfort Proposals................................ 37 V. The Invasion of France................................. 47 VI. Napoleon's Supreme Effort.............................. 59 VII. The Great Captain at Bay............................... 71 VIII. The Struggles of Exhaustion............................ 84 IX. The Beginning of the End.............................. 101 X. The Fall of Paris..................................... 111 XI. Napoleon's First Abdication........................... 123 XII. The Emperor of Elba................................... 137 XIII. Napoleon the Liberator................................ 151 XIV. The Dynasties Implacable.............................. 164 XV. Ligny and Quatre Bras................................. 175 XVI. The Eve of Waterloo................................... 189 XVII. Waterloo.............................................. 199 XVIII. The Surrender......................................... 212 XIX. St. Helena............................................ 224 XX. Soldier, Statesman, Despot............................ 247 XXI. Napoleon and the United States........................ 268 XXII. Napoleon's Place in History........................... 285 Historical Sources.................................... 303 General Bibliography.................................. 307