从转引自Dwyer看,Gueniffey恐怕虽然知道Peltier此人,却是没有看过这本1814年出的书的……
9. J.-G. Peltier, Examen de la campagne de Buonaparte en Italie par un témoin oculaire (1814), quoted in Dwyer, Napoleon, 2.
后文注释倒是提到了他传播谣言后对簿公堂的事情
Despite the dates—Napoléon-Charles was born on October 18, 1802—a rumor soon spread, peddled by the Bonapartes themselves, Frédéric Masson tells us: Napoleon was Hortense’s lover, had gotten her pregnant, forced Louis to marry his mistress, and then banished his young brother and brought the young woman back to live with him. From the salons in Paris this “article of faith” crossed the Channel: to avoid feeding the rumor, Hortense had to leave the Tuileries and take up residence in a private town house bought by her father-in-law.149
(这地方译文有点问题,应该是马松确认谣言是波拿巴家族里有人制造的
En dépit des dates — Napoléon-Charles naitra le 18 octobre 1802 —, la rumeur se répandit bientot, colportée, assure Frédéric Masson, par les Bonaparte eux-mêmes : Napoléon était l’amant d’Hortense, lui avait fait un enfant, obligé Louis à épouser sa maitresse, éloigné son frère et fait revenir la jeune femme auprès de lui. Des salons parisiens, cet 'article de foi' traversa la Manche : pour ne pas alimenter la rumeur, Hortense dut quitter les Tuileries et emménager dans un hotel particulier acheté par son beau-père
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149. Masson, Napoléon et sa famille, 2:146–164. In London, Jean-Gabriel Peltier, the former editor of the Actes des apotres, was spreading these rumors in his newspaper, L’Ambigu. The Peace of Amiens made it possible to prosecute him. The trial took place in England on February 21, 1803; Peltier was sentenced to pay a fine. On July 25, 1802, Otto, the French minister in London, had demanded, on the first consul’s orders, wider prosecution of all those who had repeated such rumors (see J.-G. Peltier, The Trial of John Peltier, 229–232, and Bourrienne, Mémoires, 4:306–307). Peltier’s trial proved to be very profitable for him; he acquired new readers and continued to insult and outrage the “odd little Corsican” until the fall of Napoleon (Mitton, La Presse française, 224–225).
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