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[Footnote 1: He was wounded in the neck and leg; the ball entered the right thigh, and could never be extracted. Towards the end of his life it had worked down to about twelve inches above the foot.]
[Footnote 2: Note here passage in Book 282 in French copy.]
[Footnote 3: About 14 deg. below zero, Fahrenheit.]
[Footnote 4: 'As the Emperor is no longer in France,' he said himself in a note in his Memoirs, 'I shall throw up my commission.']
[Footnote 5: Bourgogne married at Conde on August 31st, 1814, Therese Fortunee Demarez. After her death, in 1822, he married Philippine Godart, a native of Tournai.]
[Footnote 6: 'In 1830,' he said in the note already quoted 'I shall return to the service when the tricolor reappears.']
[Footnote 7: Our sergeant had three brothers and a sister, of whom he was the eldest: Francois, Professor of Mathematics at the College of Conde; Firmin, died young; Florence, married to a brewer; Louis Florent, Doctor of Medicine of the Faculty of Paris, died in 1870. Marie Francoise Monnier, their mother, was born at Conde in 1764.]
[Footnote 8: We found M. de Vatimesnil's letters in the military portfolio of Bourgogne, in the War Archives.]
[Footnote 9: We give here a list, copied from the Memoirs, of the important battles in which Bourgogne took part: Jena, Pultusk, Eylau, Eilsberg, Friedland, Essling, Wagram, Sorno-Sierra, Benevent, Smolensk, La Moskowa, Krasnoe, La Berezina, Lutzen, and Bautzen. 'I may add,' he said, 'more than twenty small encounters and other skirmishes.']
[Footnote 10: Bourgogne's Memoirs appeared for the first time in extenso in our Nouvelle Revue Retrospective, which for the last fourteen years has been devoted to the publication of documents on our national history.]
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