Chapter II: Preface: vii

CHAPTER I.

FROM ALMEIDA TO MOSCOW 1

CHAPTER II.

THE FIRE AT MOSCOW 14

CHAPTER III.

THE RETREAT--REVIEW OF MY KNAPSACK--THE EMPEROR
IN DANGER--FROM MOJAISK TO SLAWKOWO 55

CHAPTER IV.

DOROGOBOUI--VERMIN--A CANTINIERE--HUNGER 65

CHAPTER V.

A DISASTER--A FAMILY DRAMA--MARSHAL MORTIER--TWENTY-SEVEN
DEGREES OF FROST--WE REACH
SMOLENSK--A DEN OF THIEVES 74

CHAPTER VI.

A DISTURBED NIGHT--I FIND MY FRIENDS AGAIN--WE
LEAVE SMOLENSK--A NECESSARY CORRECTION--THE
BATTLE OF KRASNOE--MELLE THE DRAGOON 93

CHAPTER VII.

THE RETREAT GOES ON--I TAKE A WIFE--DISCOURAGEMENT--I
LOSE SIGHT OF MY COMRADES--DRAMATIC
SCENE--MEETING WITH PICART 122

CHAPTER VIII.

I TRAVEL WITH PICART--THE COSSACKS--PICART IS
WOUNDED--A CONVOY OF FRENCH PRISONERS--A
HALT IN A FOREST--POLISH HOSPITALITY--AN ATTACK
OF INSANITY--WE REJOIN THE ARMY--THE EMPEROR
AND THE SACRED BATTALION--THE CROSSING OF THE
BEREZINA 145

CHAPTER IX.

FROM THE BEREZINA TO WILNA--THE JEWS 207

CHAPTER X.

FROM WILNA TO KOWNO--THE REGIMENTAL DOG--MARSHAL
NEY--THE TREASURY OF THE ARMY--I
AM POISONED--THE THIEVES' DRIPPING--THE OLD
GRENADIER, FALOPPA--GENERAL ROGUET--FROM
KOWNO TO ELBING--TWO CANTINIERES--THE ADVENTURES
OF A SERGEANT--I FIND PICART AGAIN--THE
SLEDGE AND THE JEWS--A SHREW--EYLAU--ARRIVAL
AT ELBING 229

CHAPTER XI.

OUR STAY AT ELBING--MADAME GENTIL--AN UNCLE'S
HEIR--JANUARY 1ST, 1813--PICART AND THE
PRUSSIANS--FATHER ELLIOT--MY WITNESSES 329

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Sergeant Bourgogne in 1830. _Frontispiece_

The French Receiving Hospitality from Russian Women, 50

The Bridge over the Kolotscha near Borodino, September 17, 1812, 90

On the High Road from Mojaiska to Krymskoie, September 18, 1812, 130

Bivouac near Mikalewka, November 7, 1812, 170

On the Road between Braunsberg and Elbing, December 21, 1812, 210

Passage of the Berezina, November, 1812, 250

Beside the Road, not far from Pnewa, November 8, 1812, 300

MEMOIRS OF SERGEANT BOURGOGNE