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= Vicaire V, p.99; Carteret III, p.375; Sander 425; Ray 203: "His focus is less exclusively on Napoleon, allowing him to pay more attention to the surrounding circumstances of the Emperor's life, and many of his initial letters and tailpieces are allegorical (...)".