Author
Napoleon Bonaparte is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“I went to the Hotel de Invalides, supposing I should be admitted to the spot where repose the ashes of Napoleon, for though I love not pilgrimages to sepulchers, and prefer paying my homage to the living spirit, rather than to the dust it once animated.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“The Breton character is that of untameable resistance, and of blind, obstinate, intrepid opposition—for instance, Moreau, the opponent of Bonaparte.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Michelet’s History of France." New-York Daily Tribune, 20 May 1845. · 20 May 1845
“I went to the Hotel de Invalides, supposing I should be admitted to the spot where repose the ashes of Napoleon, for though I love not pilgrimages to sepulchers, and prefer paying my homage to the living spirit, rather than to the dust it once animated.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XII." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 May 1847. · 12 May 1847
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Like Bonaparte, she discharges her face of all expression when she catches the eye of impertinent curiosity fixed on her.”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Napoleon Bonaparte — “Like Bonaparte, she discharges her face of all expression when she catches the eye of impertinent curiosity fixed on her.” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.