Who wrote the novella Clisson et Eugénie?
Napoleon Bonaparte wrote the novella Clisson et Eugénie. Peter Hicks compiled the current reconstructed version of the text in 2009.
Questions about Clisson et Eugénie
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When was the manuscript for Clisson et Eugénie first published?
The fourth fragment was published by Fayard in France for the first time in 2007. The English-language edition edited by Peter Hicks appeared in 2009 after he discovered a missing section in December 2007.
Where are the surviving fragments of Clisson et Eugénie located today?
One segment resides in the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Santa Barbara, California. Another fragment remains in Moscow's State Historical Museum while other pages exist within private collections.
What literary works influenced the themes of Clisson et Eugénie?
Some observers have claimed that Napoleon was influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. La Nouvelle Héloïse appeared in 1761 and shaped themes of doomed romance while The Sorrows of Young Werther followed in 1774.
How did the story of Clisson et Eugénie end?
Clisson dies after sending one final letter to his unfaithful wife Eugénie and her new lover Berville. He deliberately engineers his own death to end a marriage that has turned against him during an armed charge toward the enemy.