Napoléon et sa famille (French Edition)

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• How Napoleon became ‘King of Italy’?

Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. We will be able to see more clearly if we can give the people a clear of idea of it; so that they can see the effects, consider them, compare them, judge them, in short so that they can appropriate them for themselves. Consult with many people, discover the desires of those who are most enlightened, or with other interested parts of the state. With your support, these ideas could achieve the critical mass we have vainly sought for in the past.

Once you have presented these ideas to the Consul and he has judged them suitable… all that will remain will be to bring over the others and to decide on a mode of execution. He admitted that the example of Piedmont would certainly not be a reason for confidence in this respect. And finally he weighed up the obstacle of the lack of consent of the other Powers, already greatly afraid at such a colossal aggrandizement. He seemed to think that a complete independence ought to be more agreeable to us.

If we preferred a monarchical state or a mixed government, he could not imagine which prince could be chosen, and even if one could be found, France would then have to be in agreement. Here arose the idea of turning our eyes towards someone from his family. But even this solution was not exempt from difficulties, in his opinion. The first and greatest difficulty for him was that you [Melzi] should not be distanced from a position which you have so nobly occupied and to which you were called by the general will.

The other is that, of those in his family, one would perhaps refuse [i. The conclusion of this was that which I outlined in the open letter. Lucien is rejected because of bad blood caused by his marriage to Alexandrine Bleschamp.

The Italian politician went on: It is his son whom the Consul wishes to appoint as his successor, despite the fact that he is only 18 months old. To dig in our heels about remaining a republic would now be madness. That he should leave us in total liberty would be worse. But he would never do that. So the best solution sees to me to seize the moment and get the best we can for ourselves.

Marescalchi then went on to lay out his own opinions on the matter: I may be wrong, but I can almost see it. I certainly did not dare to suggest it to the Consul, but to you I can expound the problem such as it appears to me. Starting from this principle, I think that we should see this occasion as our best chance for emancipating ourselves and founding a government — the solution which at other times you thought best for us.

Having said this, Bonaparte will probably deserve our eternal gratitude and we could not, without doing ourselves a disservice, refuse him. But, even if we were to imagine excessive generosity on his part such that he might renounce this right, I do not think that it would ever be prudent or advantageous to ourselves to provoke that generosity, or even to agree to it. As a result, I could not advise this request nor propose any other head than him, as long he deigned to be it.

As for the title, it could be one or the other, it is of no importance, provided it was worthy of him. I shall ask him then, whether under his auspices from now on, or choosing someone from his family — whichever he thinks most suitable for us — 1 that the order of succession be fixed such that after Bonaparte, the emperor of the French may never be at the same time King of the Lombards, or of Lombardy or of Italy. Marescalchi ended as follows: You asked me to speak openly, and I have done it. As for the first part of what I have written, it is the truth.

As for the second, it is what I feel. If I am wrong, do not blame me. The new emperor gives the impression of being the very model of moderation and liberality. The reference to annexation could be viewed as an indirect threat. These Italian negotiations came not only right in the middle of the discussions in corridors and horse-trading over the proclamation of Empire in France, a declaration which would already have worried international opinion, but also at the climax of the Moreau-Cadoudal trial.

He informed his minister that the Consulta would send two documents to Paris. One, a decree ordering the building of a monument to Napoleon as emperor. And a second, a statement of desire voto in Italian, voeu in French offering to Napoleon the quality of King of Italy or Lombardy as he wished. That document was dated 28 May, Article three imposed that after Napoleon, now head of the Italian Republic sic could reside permanently outside the country.

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Article four noted that kingship of Italy was incompatible with emperorship of France. Article nine noted that details concerning the majority of the king, the regency, the rights and duties of the royal family etc. Article twelve allowed a treaty of mutual offence and defence, but formally refused all dependence and payment of tributes. The full list of articles is printed in J. All that Marescalchi had mentioned to Melzi is here. For the Italians, the accession of Napoleon or any other member of his family was a step towards independence and freedom from the heavy tribute and troops stationed on Italian territory.

In July, Marescalchi presented the whole project for the constitution. After this there was radio silence. Napoleon left on his imperial journey to Belgium and the banks of the Rhine 18 July to 12 October. Melzi was probably correct in his declaration to the Austrian agent in Milan, Baron Moll, on 9 July when he noted: As part of his imperial progress, the emperor had meditated before the tomb of Charlemagne in Aachen, preparing for his own consecration and coronation as the new Charlemagne.

He had also come to certain conclusions regarding the fate of Italy.

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On 11 July, Melzi had written to Napoleon asking him to lower the military tribute paid by the Italian republic. VI, letter , 11 July, Melzi was it is true in frequent touch with the Austrian agent, Baron Moll — even using code words in their correspondence to refer to sensitive subjects such as Napoleon, Italy, Francis, etc — but the threat seems far-fetched.

And so, in Mainz on 2 October, Napoleon summoned Marescalchi, gave him a fiery reception and demanded that the Italian Consulta come to Paris the following month. If they want to go back on their word they risk being transformed into French departments. They will be my outposts, they will suffer war and pay for it. Which prince do they have in Italy whom they could put at their head? It is of no interest to me to be king of Italy; it is they who must pronounce the will of the people.

And Melzi had better be there! He must head the delegation and direct the deliberations so that everything goes according to the rules. The delegation duly arrived in Paris, not only to attend the coronation but also to negotiate the new constitution. After spending the whole month of December in Paris visiting the coronation celebrations without having received a summons, the delegation was finally called to a solemn audience on 30 December in theory to grant them their leave from the coronation celebrations.

Here Napoleon suddenly and aggressively addressed them in a long monologue.

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He then dismissed the Italian enjoining them to summon the Consulta, to use the voto already written as a basis for the new document, and to return the new constitution in eight days. Notes by Valdrighi, quoted in Pingaud, Bonaparte , p. Since, as Thierry Lentz has pointed out, Napoleon was clearly aware that to take the crown of Italy himself would be a casus belli for Austria, the French emperor turned to the old plan considered by the Italians back in May , of handing the throne to his elder brother Joseph.

Suggestions by Talleyrand encouraged him in the same direction.

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They [the rest of the Bonaparte clan, ed. I think I am quite capable of governing Italy; and the state of Venice too. Italy brings me twenty million. If I gave her away, they would make a thousand little schemes so as to only give me fifteen.