304-[PONTÉCOULANT (Ph.-G. de)]. Souvenirs militaires. Napoléon à Waterloo, ou précis rectifié de la campagne de 1815, by a former officer of the Imperial Guard. Paris, Dumaine, 1866, in-8, LV-491 pp. 1 map and 2 plans h.-t., havana half-maroquin, ornate ribbed spine, numeral at foot, cover preserved, red head (Dupré). First and only published edition Tulard, 1174. "Aide-de-camp to Marshal Gérard, Pontécoulant uses his memories and especially what has been written about the Hundred Days to praise Napoleon and absolve him of all criticism and guilt for the defeat". De Meulenaere, p. 245: "Son of Senator Louis-Gustave Le Doulcet de Pontécoulant, author of Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires, Philippe de Pontécoulant was lieutenant in the artillery of the Vieille Garde during the 1815 campaign. He was attached to the very battery that marched to the vanguard on June 17. In 1832, he was aide-de-camp to Marshal Gérard. This work is more a study of the operations of the 1815 campaign than a true military memoir (...). A fine copy with the Chaudron de Courcel cipher.