Author: [NAPOLEON]
Title: The Imperial Family, and Great Offciers of State, Civil and Military, in France. Humbly Dedicated to the Admirers of the French Revolution, and of Liberty and Equality. [Extracted from the Literary Panorama, for November 1810.]
Description: Cox, Son, and Bayliss, Printers, Great Queen Street, [1810] 1st Edition? Folio. pp. 4. The presumed 1st edition of this anti-Napoleonic pamphlet, other editions were published in Bath and Newcastle. The Imperial Family. Napoleon Buonaparte: "...he commenced his career of murder at the age of sixteen, by poisoning a young woman at Brienne who was with child by him." Letitia Ranioli [Mother to Napoleon]: "A most notorious prostitute. At fifteen years of age, she had a child by a friar. After her marriage with Carlo Buonapart, she was kept by Count Marboeuf, by who she had Napoleon and Lucien. She afterwards kept a public brothel at Marseilles." Paulina Buonaparte: "Eldest sister to the Emperor, with who he has had incestuous intercourse... was a common prostitute..." And the Great Officers of State. Maret: "... a man of very little talent or information." Savary: "A most infamous villain: a common bravo, who, by Bounaparte's orders stabbed General Dessaix in the back...the person who Buonaparte employs in all his secret murders, such as Pichegru's Captain Wright's, &c." Great Military Officers. Marshall Davoust: "A man of infamous character: very cruel, and very avaricious." Marshall Moncey: "Formerly a Gentleman's servant: a man of indifferent character, and of no military talents." Brune, late Marshall of France: "Originally a journeyman printer: a most infamous wretch> the identical person who carried the head and heart about the streets of Paris, in Sept. 1792."

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