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Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène ou La Captivité de Napoléon by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier (1911) The Prisoner of War (Napoleon on the Island of St. Helena) by J. Searle Dawley (1912) The Agony of the Eagles by Dominique Bertinotti and Julien Duvivier, uncredited (1920–1921)
The Memorial of Saint Helena (French: Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène), written by Emmanuel de Las Cases, is a journal-memoir of the beginning of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile on Saint Helena. The core of the work transcribes Las Cases' near-daily conversations with the former Emperor on his life, his career, his political philosophy, and the ...
Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire de France sous Napoléon (ed. Gourgaud and Montholon, Paris, 1823; Eng. ed., London, 1823; new ed., Paris, 1905) Récits de la captivité de l'Empereur Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (2 vols., Paris, 1847) Marquise de Montholon's Souvenirs de Ste Hélène, 1815–16 (Paris, 1901).
The Council of Paris or National Council was an abortive council of the church that attempted to impose Napoleon I's will on Pope Pius VII on a number of church issues. Held in two key phases from June 17 to August 5, 1811, at Notre-Dame de Paris, the council occurred while the Pope was imprisoned in Savona before being secretly transferred to Fontainebleau on June 12, 1812.
In accordance with Napoleon's wishes, his body was opened on May 6, 1821, at 2 p.m. by François Antommarchi (an experienced prosector), assisted by seven British physicians, in order to ascertain the physical cause of his illness and to take advantage of this document in the event of his son being attacked by some ailment offering analogies with the illness that was about to take him: for ...
Histoire de la Captivité de Pie VII; Histoire du Pérou (1807) Vie politique, militaire et privee du general Moreau (1814) Catastrophe de Murat, ou Recit de la derniere revolution de Naples (1815) Histoire du Brésil (1815) Histoire des campagnes de 1814 et 1815 (1817) Biographie des jeunes gens, ou Vies des grands hommes (1818) Histoire de la ...
1829: Apologie du duel, ou Quelques mots sur le nouveau projet de loi; 1829: Le Pacha et la Vivandière, folie vaudeville in 3 tableaux; 1830: La Lingère, ou la Vie de Paris en 1830, 5 vol. 1830: Mémorial de Sir Hudson Lowe, relatif à la captivité de Napoléon; 1831: Le Chiffonnier, 5 vol., with Stanislas Macaire
In 1814 Roustam married Mademoiselle Douville in Dourdan and refused to follow the Emperor in his exile to Elba after the first Bourbon Restoration. [6] [7] He offered his service to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, but the emperor refused to even receive him and spoke bitterly of Raza's "betrayal" in his recollections written at St. Helena.