NAPOLEON]. Historical notes on Napoleon. In French, manuscript on paper. France, ca. 1842, [1] f. of table, [1] blank f., 373 pp., [1] p. (continuation of the table of contents), volume in-4. Worn hardback binding. The author of this biography has "drawn from the most authentic and proven documents" and has "compared the report of several historians to recall only positive facts on which they agreed.» An admirer of the Emperor, "a man so great, so extraordinary", he intends not to deliver a hagiography and if history must make him known "it must not forget his too great ambition and the serious faults that it made him commit, which led to his fall and caused many evils to France, so that posterity can appreciate the superiority of his genius and his weaknesses". Very well documented, this manuscript seems to be unpublished. A handwritten note on the back cover indicates "This History of Napoleon I is attributed by M. Brun-Durand, in his Dictionnaire biographique de la Drôme to Joseph Grasson, painter and journalist, born in Montélimar on December 17, 1759, and died in this city on February 29, 1820. Our manuscript, which relates the death of Napoleon in 1821 and includes "notes and observations on the revolution of July 1830" cannot be that of Joseph Grasson.