As I frequently say, every thing I do here is guided from elsewhere. When I was guided to get the de Ségur memoirs, I thought an aide de camp memoir would be too peripheral to the thrust of this Napoleon truth movement. De Ségur with his aristocratic pomposity was always just a little good for Napoleon and it annoyed me. Then when I opened the Memoirs of Rapp, (another aide de camp memoir), I could hear the strength of his voice immediately.
I didn’t want to plow through the miseries of what he endured but I had a strong presentiment that I’d like him. These memoirs struck me as wholly credible. He saw his friend Napoleon get subverted by emigrant royalist agents and it broke his heart. What a man!