The Koran.

The Vedan.Mythology.Montesquieu.The Esprit des Lois.
It will be observed that he classed the books of the religious creeds of nations under the head of "politics." The autograph copy of the above list contains some of those orthographical blunders which Bonaparte so frequently committed.

Whether these blunders are attributable to the limited course of instruction he received at Brienne, to his hasty writing, the rapid flow of his ideas, or the little importance he attached to that indispensable condition of polite education, I know not.

Knowing so well as he did the authors and generals whose names appear in the above list, it is curious that he should have written Ducecling for Duguesclin, and Ocean for Ossian.

The latter mistake would have puzzled me not a little had I not known his predilection for the Caledonian bard.
Before his departure Bonaparte laid in a considerable stock of Burgundy.
It was supplied by a man named James, of Dijon.