Napoleon on Cossacks

[FRISON Philippe]

It seems rather to stem from Alexandre Dumas the Elder, "Memoires, 1956-59, chap. XXXVIII.
http://www.dumaspere.com/pages/bibliotheque/sommaire.php?lid=m3

It was also quoted in a drama :

"Napoléon Bonaparte, ou trente ans de l'histoire de France" (1931),
A six-act drama about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte <http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/work.php?key=364>.

It is quoted tyoo in Karl Marx's "THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS BONAPARTE"
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/4/1346/1346.txt (without proper references either)

The quote from "Memorial de Ste-helene" (written by Emmanuel de Las Cases) seems uncertain at best.
A check at a 2 vol. edition from bnf (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4112291/f894.image.r=cinquante) did not yield any results.

It seems that this quote is a nicely formulated fake due to Alexandre Dumas the Elder...

Philippe Frison
(Strasbourg, France)

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The French version of the prophesy is "D'Ici à cinquante ans, toute l'Europe sera républicaine ou cosaque."  It seems to be from the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène.


Mark R. Pettus, Ph.D.
Department of Slavic
Languages & Literatures
Princeton University


On Jul 11, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Toman, Jindrich wrote:



        Dear Seelangers: At some point Napoleon allegedly made the prophesy that in one hundred years Europe would be either French or Cossack. Is anyone familiar with a source for this?

        Many thanks for suggestions from a colleague involved in footnoting...

        --Jindrich Toman


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