Mémoires de Napoléon: L’île d’Elbe et les Cent-Jours 1814-1815 (Vol. III) (in French)

 
From the publishers:
During the last years of his life, Napoleon set to dictating his memoirs. These texts should not, however, be confused with the memoirs published by his companions in exile, the success of which has often seen the French emperor's own account of his life left in the dark. Conscious of the remarkable nature of his career, he was not about to let anyone but himself recount and interpret his story. And so for more than five years, on the tiny island of Saint Helena, he oversaw a veritable factory dedicated to the production of history. Painstakingly dictated, reread and corrected by Napoleon himself, these memoirs constitute, if you will, the principal protoganist's view of key moments in his own epic saga. Which makes the fact that these writings have not been republished for over one hundred years all the more perplexing.
 
This third volume rounds off the trilogy, taking in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, the emperor's stay on the island of Elba, the Cent-Jours and his triumphal return to Paris, and finishing with the defeat at Waterloo on 18 June, 1815. As the victorious European powers sought to weaken France post-Napoleon, the deposed French emperor, exiled to the island of St Helena, saw it his duty to retell the story of Elba, the Cent-Jours, and Waterloo, in a bid to create “a collective work, written entirely for the glory of France”. Dictating his memoirs from the island in the South Atlantic, this book closes the circle on Napoleon's recollections of his rule.