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Napoleon surrendering to the English and boarding one of their ships. Bonaparte's arrival on Saint Helena Island, engraving by Louis-Yves Queverdo [].. Following his abdication on June 22, 1815, Napoleon proceeded to the Atlantic coast, where the French government, under the leadership of Fouché, had arranged for two frigates to facilitate his departure for America.
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 ...
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.
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).
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 ...
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.
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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