A Bernadotte Bibliography:
From The Bernadotte Series Forum:
Wencker, Friedrich. Bernadotte: A Biography. 1936. 316 p. :
https://books.google.com/books?id=QFMeAAAAMAAJ
Schmelter, Sandra. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte - Karl XIV. Johan Ein französischer Bürger und Soldat wird schwedischer König. 2010. : https://www.grin.com/document/177349
Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket, 1853-1937. The Amazing Career Of Bernadotte 1763 To 1844. 1929. 492 p. : https://books.google.com/books?id=xM4s4rfYhEEC
Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket, 1853-1937. Bernadotte: The First Phase, 1763-1799. 1914. 532 p. : https://books.google.com/books?id=hf1oAAAAMAAJ https://archive.org/details/bernadottefirstp00bart
Saurau, Franz Joseph von, 1760-1832. Bernadotte's Friedens- und Kriegsgeschichte. 1799. 26 p. : http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id360637604
A faithful account of the riot in Vienna, 13th April 1798, occasioned by the French Ambassador's [General Bernadotte] hoisting in that City the National Flag of France. By an Eye-Witness. Translated from the German. 1798. : http://books.google.com/books?vid=BL:A0018301121
German text: https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10008762.html
Casati de Casatis, C. Charles (1833-1919). Le général Bernadotte, ambassadeur à Vienne et ministre de la guerre sous le directoire.... 1899. 16 p. Extrait des "Actes du Congrès d'histoire diplomatique de La Haye". Septembre 1898. : Also, see: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105691636?rk=21459;2
Møller, J. Biografisk Skildring af Marschal J. Bernadotte, Prinds af Ponte Corvo og udkaaret Kronprinds af Sverrig. 1810. 24 p. : http://www5.kb.dk/e-mat/dod/114128019288_color.pdf
Lindh, Hazel Fredericka Charlotte. The Election of Bernadotte: As Prince Royal of Sweden, 1810. 1918. 274 p. : https://books.google.com/books?id=0fRGAQAAMAAJ
Coquelle, Pierre, 1858-1 Napoléon et la Suède (L'élection de Bernadotte) : D'après les documents inédits des archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères et des Archives nationales ... 1907. 32 p. : http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101074253871
Daumont, Alexandre. Voyage en Suède contenant des notions étendues sur le commerce ... avec des détails sur le gouvernement du roi Charles XIV Jean (Bernadotte), et sur les causes qui amenèrent son élévation au trône de Suède. 2 vols. 1834: Gale on-line,
Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket, 1853-1937. Bernadotte and Napoleon, 1763-1810. 1921. : https://archive.org/details/cu31924028418527
Blomberg, Anton. Marskalk Bernadotte och hans tid 1763-1810. 2 v. in 1. 1899. : http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89097396840
Rede des französischen Divisions-Generalen Bernadotte an den Rath der Fünfhunderten zu Paris. Welcher 328 Offiziere von der französischen Arme beistimmten. 1809. 3 p. : https://books.google.com/books?vid=BL:A0020676098
Coquelle, Pierre, 1858-1 Napoléon et Bernadotte en 1811 : la mission d'Alquier à Stockholm / d'après les documents inédits des Archives des affaires étrangères, à Paris. 1909. 24 p. :
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5600595n
Barton, Sir Dunbar Plunket, 1853-1937. Bernadotte, Prince and King, 1810-1844. 1925. 248 p. : https://books.google.com/books?id=xW5pAAAAMAAJ
Haedecke, Richard, 1891-. Bernadotte und die Schlacht bei Dennewitz. 1915. 48 p. : https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2619004
Stael, Anne-Louise-Germaine. An appeal to the nations of Europe against the continental system published at Stockholm, by authority of Bernadotte, in March, 1813. 64 p. :
https://archive.org/details/appealtonationso00sta http://books.google.com/books?vid=BL:A0022222694
Duval de Fréjacques, Jules (1853-1907). Napoléon, Bulow et Bernadotte, 1813 (offensives contre Berlin). 1906. 90 p. : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k930995b
Schefer, Christian. Bernadotte, roi (1810-1818-1844). 1899. 321 p. : https://archive.org/details/bernadotteroi00schegoog
Pingaud, Léonce, 1841-1923. Bernadotte, Napoléon et les Bourbons (1797-1844). 19-0. 476 p. : https://archive.org/details/bernadottenapol00pinggoog
Touchard-Lafosse, Georges. Carl XIV.: (Johann Bernadotte), König von Schweden und Norwegen. 2 vols. 2e ed. 1858. :
Vol. 1 (1858): https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F89AAAAAcAAJ
Vol. 2 (1858): https://archive.org/details/histoiredecharl03chargoog
French ed. 3 vols. 1838:
Vol. 1: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55578631?rk=42918;4
Vol. 2: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5548562m?rk=64378;0
Vol. 3: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5548546h?rk=21459;2
Correspondance de Bernadotte, prince royal de Suède, avec Napoléon, depuis 1810 jusqu'en 1814, précédée de notices sur la situation de la Suède, depuis son élévation au trône des Scandinaves, pièces officielles recueillies et publiées par M. Bail,... 1819. : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61529187
Recueil de lettres, proclamations et discours de Charles XIV Jean, roi de Suède et de Norvège. 2 vols. 1858. 2e ed. :
Vol. 1: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_F89AAAAAcAAJ
Vol. 2: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001253878d
Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de Charles-XIV-Jean, roi de Suède et de Norvège.
Vol. 1 (1820): https://archive.org/details/mmoirespourser01coup
Vol. 2 (1820): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951001254318a
Sørensen, Carl Theodor, 1824-1914. Bernadotte i Norden; eller, Norges adskillelse fra Danmark og forening med Sverig. 3 vols. :
Vol. 1 (1903): https://archive.org/details/bernadotteinord02srgoog
Vol. 2 (1903): https://archive.org/details/bernadotteinord00srgoog
Vol. 3:(1904): https://archive.org/details/bernadotteinord01srgoog
Alm, Mikael; Johansson, Brittinger. Script of Kingship:Essays on Bernadotte and Dynastic Formation in an Age of Revolution. 2008. The English Historical Review, Volume CXXV, Issue 512, February 2010, Pages 205–208: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep394 http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:45551/FULLTEXT01.pdf
LES AMIS DE BERNADOTTE: A very useful site:
https://les-amis-de-bernadotte.blogspot.com/2007/11/
a good discussion of some sources about the Prince de Ponte Corvo - or according to Boney the miserable Prince de Ponte Corvo - just a few more -
Bernadotte revisited discusses several biographies and works and the person https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280782308_Bernadotte_Revisited_or_the_Complexity_of_a_Long_Reign_1810-1844Also a good article by Robert Ouvrad 14 octobre 1806 – La bataille d’Auerstaedt – L’affaire Bernadotte https://www.napoleon-histoire.com/14-octobre-1806-bataille-d-auerstaedt-l-affaire-bernadotte/also in the
Revue Napoléonienne - dirigé de Albert Lumbroso Avril - Septembre 1903 Le Maréchal Bernadotte et la Manoeuvre d'Jena by Titeux a superb article - a must read indeed about that subject, I cannot find a online link, I got my pdf thanks to my friend and mentor Steve Smith.also
Les armees europeennes de Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (1805-1814) Antoine Desdoit, Jean-Marc Olivier https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00963843and
another in my view very important bio, for a change in German
by Klaeber here just the contents http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/exlibris/aleph/a22_1/apache_media/6AYKISQNY63QIS4DSAS5EE9BDXMP86.pdf and for zoners https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001858130Pourquoi le maréchal Bernadotte ne parut ni à Iena, ni à Auerstädt, ni à Eylau by L. Picard in Revue Militaire Suisse - Band 52, Jahr 1907, Heft 5 https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=rms-001:1907:52::365#365also
Duval : Napoléon, Bulow et Bernadotte - Offensives contre Berlin 1813 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k930995b.imageand
Haedecke - Bernadotte und die Schlacht bei Dennewitz for zoners https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007898230also I am not snubbing wikipedia - I always check on them and very often find useful sources, even with links for online downloads and nice illustrations.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_XIV._Johann_(Schweden)
'...according to Boney the miserable Prince de Ponte Corvo...'
Davout said that regarding Bernadotte after Auerstadt-with good reason.
@Kevin F. Kiley
Davout said that regarding Bernadotte after Auerstadt-with good reason.I have to check on that, otherwise this topic Bernadotte and executing his orders at Jena, were discussed at lengths at the old napoleon series org forum at lengths, were the "good reason" was demolished - without reading Foucart, Titeux, Ouvrad, Picard, John Cook, Dupont, Belliard, Girod de l'Ain, Murat, Soult - a balanced assessment seems likely to fail, Elting as ever so often is very badly informed and shows only his willingness to accept the propaganda of Boney without doing proper research, as :
but in 1806 he deliberately disobeyed orders, Elting, Swords, p. 137You take Elting's opinion usually as face value - where I am asking - but is that really the case? And no it isn't - as proper research shows.
For those inclined to learn more - please read this discussion at
https://www.napoleon-series.org/cgi-bin/forum/archive2013_config.pl?page=1;md=read;id=151855
That's certainly a well appreciated compilation! For what it's worth here's my linkless list of Bernadotte bios in English
MEMOIRS AND CAMPAIGNS OF CHARLES JOHN, PRINCE ROYAL OF SWEDEN, by John Philippart, 1814
MEMORIALS OF CHARLES JOHN, KING OF SWEDEN AND NORWAY, by William George Meredith, 1829, London
A QUEEN OF NAPOLEON’S COURT: THE LIFE STORY OF DESIREE BERNADOTTE, by Catherine Bearne, E.P. Dutton and Co., New York, 1905
BERNADOTTE: THE FIRST PHASE 1763-1799, by D. Plunket Barton, Charles Scribner & Sons, 1914, New York
BERNADOTTE AND NAPOLEON: SECOND PHASE 1763-1810, by D. Plunket Barton, John Murray, London, 1914. Charles Scribner & Sons, 1914, New York
BERNADOTTE CROWN PRINCE AND KING: THIRD PHASE 1810-1844, by D. Plunket Barton, Charles Scribner & Sons, 1914, New York
THE AMAZING CAREER OF BERNADOTTE, by D. Plunket Barton, 1929
BERNADOTTE AND THE FALL OF NAPOLEON, by Franklin D. Scott, Harvard University Press, 1935, Cambridge Mass.
BERNADOTTE A BIOGRAPHY, by Friedrich Wencker-Wildberg, Jarrolds, London, 1936
BELLE JAMBE: THE LIFE OF MARSHAL BERNADOTTE KING OF SWEDEN, by Simon Dewes, Rich and Cowan, London, 1943
BERNADOTTE, Marshal of France and King of Sweden, by Lord Russell of Liverpool, Ascent Books, 1981, London
BERNADOTTE: NAPOLEON’S MARSHAL, SWEDEN’S KING, by Alan Palmer, John Murray Publishers LTD., 1991, London
A german book published 1814: Karl Johann, Kronprinz von Schweden. Eine Skizze seiner Denkwürdigkeiten mit Hinsicht auf Schwedens Thronveränderung und neueste politische Verhältnisse. Berlin 1814.
Thank you Alfred:
Karl Johann, Kronprinz von Schweden: eine Skizze seiner Denkwürdigkeiten mit Hinsicht auf Schwedens Thronveränderung und neueste politische Verhältnisse. 1814. 126 p. :
https://books.google.com/books/about/Karl_Johann_Kronprinz_von_Schweden.html?id=a59OAAAAcAAJ
https://books.google.com/books?id=BStRAAAAcAAJ
https://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/BV001568888
There are two great stories I have read on Bernadotte after he had turned on France were (1) during the siege of Antwerp in 1814 when Bernadotte sent an aide-de-camp under a flag of truce in an attempt to cajole Carnot into surrendering the fortress. Carnot's blunt refusal 'addressed Bernadotte as 'a prince, born a Frenchman, who knows so much about the standards of honorable conduct''; and (2) an old soldier's 'yarn' that had Bernadotte 'demanding a parley' with the commander of a fortress in Germany held by the French. Apparently, so the story goes, a sentry quickly fired at him, and Bernadotte protested at this seeming disrespect of a flag of truce. Bernadotte was told, undoubtedly straight faced, that the sentry was merely attempting to 'apprehend a French deserter.' Too bad the sentry missed.
Unlike other posters here, you did not post the original source of the materials referred in your above statement. The second "story" has many versions, with claiming the individual fired a 24lb cannon! Truly, just a story!
I do not understand the value of insulting stories within the original post. Do you?
Perhaps this will help:
The Carnot story can be found in La Sabretache, 3d Serie, VI, 395.
The sentry story, which was noted as being an old soldier's yarn, can be found in John Elting's Swords Around a Throne, page 691, note 13.
'I do not understand the value of insulting stories within the original post. Do you?'
Why insulting? The two 'stories' definitely outline what the French thought of Bernadotte after he joined the allies and it isn't complimentary. Bernadotte's character was definitely flawed, he was not in the top tier of marshals, and he turned on his own countrymen and the troops that he had led.
The 'value' is that they shed a light on Bernadotte the man who doesn't, in my opinion, deserve admiration despite Titeaux's efforts to the contrary.
As Crown Prince of Sweden in 1813-1814 he conducted himself for all intents and purposes, merely as an ADC to Alexander.
A nice discussion of titles in a Bernadotte bibliography:
Jean-Marc Olivier. Bernadotte Revisited, or the Complexity of a Long Reign (1810-1844). In Nordic Historical Review, n° 2, October 2006, p. 127-138. :
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280782308
thanks very interesting hopefully there will be some published works from the archives in the Bernadotte collection.