Confession du général Buonaparté à l'abbé Maury, &c. &c., dédiée au général Kleber, par le général Sarrazin, ancien chef d'état-major du général Bernadotte, aux armées d'Allemagne et d'Italie. Et ornée du portrait du général Kléber, peint à Paris par Gérard et gravé à Londres par Heath

French edition, issued simultaneously with an English edition by the same publishers. It is a virulent pamphlet directed against Napoleon himself, circulated by one of his best-known opponents: General Jean Sarrazin (1770-1848), who had defected to the enemy on 10 June 1810, having himself conveyed aboard an English brig by a fishing boat from Boulogne.

Full red blind-stamped cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt initials at the foot of the spine, discolouration marks to the spine, blue paper endleaves and pastedowns.

Foxing.
Work illustrated with a portrait of General Kléber as frontispiece.

Sentenced to death in absentia by the Lille court-martial on 15 November 1810, Jean Sarrazin was only able to return to France on 23 April 1814, during the First Restoration.

Apart from Constans’ recent thesis, there are very few studies devoted to this otherwise highly gifted officer.