The Napoleonic Wars were a defining event of the early 19th century, and inspired many works of fiction, from then until the present day. * Napoleon himself wrote Clisson et Eugénie (1795), a romantic novella about a soldier and his lover, widely acknowledged as being a fictionalised account of his own relationship with Eugénie Désirée Clary. * In January 1826 The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror magazine published an account by Arna Cano of Moustache, a dog who had participated in various campaigns of the French army. The account may be partly fictionalised. * Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace recounts Napoleon's wars between 1805 and 1812 (especially the disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat) from a Russian perspective. * Stendhal's novel The