Napoleonic Pleasures

John R. Glover, secretary to Rear Admiral Cockburn (on board the "Northumberland"), with introd. and notes by J. Holland Rose, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906 Introduction  This previously unpublished account of Napoleon's voyage to St Helena by a British eyewitness was published almost simultaneously in French and English in 1893.The author was John Richard Glover, […]

Marchand’s memoirs Louis Marchand entered service in the Imperial Household in 1811 as garçon d'appartement (house servant), subsequently becoming Premier valet de chambre (First Valet of the Emperor's Chamber). He followed Napoleon to Elba and then St Helena, becoming one of the key figures in creation of the legend around the fallen emperor. Marchand returned […]

Les origines de la légende napoléonienne: l’œuvre historique de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (English title: The exile of St Helena: the last phase in fact and fiction) by Philippe Gonnard (Paris, 1906) This book found its origin in the author's PhD thesis and was to remain a work of reference, both in positive and negative terms, […]

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution. By the Author of "Waverley", &c., de Walter Scott Of all the “historical” biographies of Napoleon, the one most often forgotten but one which played an important part in the creation of the Napoleonic legend was Sir Walter […]