1. Philip G. Dwyer, ‘From Corsican Nationalist to French Revolutionary. Problems of identity in the Writings of the Young Napoleon’, French History, 16 (2002), pp. 143–5.
2. Harold T. Parker, ‘Napoleon’s Youth and Rise to Power’, in Philip G. Dwyer (ed.), Napoleon and Europe (London, 2001), p. 39.
3. Quoted in Steven Englund, Napoleon. A Political Life (New York, 2004), p. 30.
4. Napoléon Bonaparte, Souper de Beaucaire (Paris, 1930), p. 22.
5. Alan Forrest, ‘Propaganda and the Legitimation of Power in Napoleonic France’, French History, 18 (2004), pp. 426–45.