Dear Jack,

I agree wrt to the Correspondance générale, BUT the new edition lacks - if I remember correctly - the important "notes" (quasi letters from N to himself) which are absolutely crucial to understand why N decided for the one or the other option in a certain situation. The other big disadvantage in contrast with the classic edition (under N III) is, that the index of the Correspondance générale contains only persons (*). So you cannot search for cities, events, military terms like "génie militaire" etc. So it was for example nearly impossible to find out, what was in the Correspondance générale new with respect to fortresses in Germany 1813, which were at least nearly complete in the index of the old edition...

Best regards, Thomas
(*) I cannot understand why, in the era of computers it is much more easy to make an index than in 1870