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Napoleon's tomb (French: tombeau de Napoléon) is the monument erected at Les Invalides in Paris to keep the remains of Napoleon following their repatriation to France from Saint Helena in 1840, or retour des cendres, at the initiative of King Louis Philippe I and his minister Adolphe Thiers.
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).
Longwood was Napoleon's residence on Saint Helena from December 1815 until his death in May 1821. Longwood House in January 2008 Longwood House in September 2014. Longwood House is a mansion on the British overseas territory island of St. Helena.
Napoleon (French: Napoléon et l'Europe) is a historical television series co-produced by France and Poland. It originally aired in 6 episodes between 11 January and 15 February 1991 on France 3 . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It charts the career of Napoleon , Emperor of France , from his return from his expedition to Egypt to his exile on the island of Elba .
Napoleon's Tomb (French title: L'Apothéose de Napoléon) is an 1821 oil painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An allegory , it depicts the apotheosis of the former emperor of France Napoleon following his death in exile on the island of Saint Helena .
Napoleon's Crimes: A Blueprint for Hitler (French: Le Crime de Napoléon) is a book published in 2005 by French writer Claude Ribbe, who is of Caribbean origin. In the book, Ribbe advances the thesis that Napoleon Bonaparte during the Haitian Revolution first used gas chambers as a method of mass execution, 140 years before Hitler and the Nazis.