Objects : 9
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Object / VariaScore for the Funeral March played by the St-Helena Local Militia band while the body of the Emperor was carried from the tomb to the townManuscript bearing the inscription in French: “Marche funèbre jouée à Sainte-Hélène par la musique de la milice de l’ile [illegible] la translation du corps de l’Empereur de la Vallée du tombeau à la ville”. This hand-written score of an arrangement of O come, all ye faithful,…
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Object / Directoire-Consulat-Ier Empire/Directory-Consulate-1st Empire“Dirge composed expressly for the Funeral of the Emperor Napoleon by Ch. McCarthy of the late St Helena Band, May 1821” – piano reductionIn a note in A St Helena Who’s Who (1919), Arnold Chaplin, a renowned specialist on the St Helena episode, recorded that a musical lieutenant of the 66th Regiment, Charles McCarthy, had composed a “dirge” for the Emperor’s funeral. Chaplin also reported that a score…
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ObjectCharles Bouge’s Baron d’Empire Diploma with the imperial seal and case
This “Baron d’Empire” diploma was granted to Colonel Charles Bouge at the end of March 1808 and confirmed in January 1809. He was in the first wave of Barons d’Empire, the title having been created on 1 March 1808. Charles Bouge embraced the French Revolution: he was captain in the 2nd Battalion of Volunteers of […]
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ObjectLetter from Charles Baudelaire to Empress Eugenie
6 November 1857, Madame, I needed all the prodigious presumption of a poet to dare to trouble your Majesty and bring to her attention a case as petty as my own. I have had the misfortune to be condemned for a collection of poems entitled “The Flowers of evil”, whose horribly frank title was not […]
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ObjectTreaty of the Seventh Coalition – Alliance between Great Britain and the King of Sardinia against Napoleon- Treaty of 9 April 1815 – Treaty of 25 March 1815
Authentic copy bearing the Royal Seal of Great Britain, signed by the Prince Regent, (the future George IV) and the Britsh Foreign Minister Lord Castlereagh. In 1815, the whole of Europe joined together against France, in reaction to Napoleon’s escape from Elba. The result of this alliance would be the disastrous Battle of Waterloo. This document is […]
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ObjectNapoleon’s English Lessons
These eight pages of writing, covered in the impatient scribbles of a man determined to learn the language of his captors, are some of the most evocative documents we have from Napoleon’s time on Saint Helena. His arrival on the British outpost in October 1815 heralded an exile that was not only geographic, but also […]
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ObjectCadastral map of Portoferraio, Elba
This cadastral map of Portoferraio (entitled COM: DI PORTOFERRAJO, Sezione A, detta della città Foglio Unico) comes from the extremely important corpus of 19th-century cadastral maps created before the great urban transformations which occurred in Tuscany at the end of the nineteenth century. Indeed, this corpus is of fundamental importance for the reconstitution of the […]
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ObjectFortifications, Island of Elba. Plan of Portoferraio, An 10,
This plan of Portoferraio (entitled “Fortifications, Isle d’Elbe. Plan de porto ferrajo, an. 10”), made in 1802 by Baron Charles Humbert Marie Vincent, first Director of Fortifications on the island of Elba, shows all the military buildings in the city, noting those related to Forte Stella and those connected to Forte Falcone, giving also the […]
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ObjectMemoirs, Journeys and Campaigns in Europe, from Egypt to the Disaster at Waterloo
This manuscript of 4 volumes of nearly a thousand pages written by the soldier Chevalier is a lifetime’s work. The author debuted editing it in 1830 and during nearly twenty years he ordered notes he had accumulated in the course of his career and illustrated himself. He tells us in his introduction that he is writing his […]