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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).
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.
Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides. The retour des cendres (literally "return of the ashes", though "ashes" is used here as a metaphor for his mortal remains, as he was not cremated) was the return of the mortal remains of Napoleon I of France from the island of Saint Helena to France and the burial in Hôtel des Invalides in Paris in 1840, on the initiative of Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers and ...
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.
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.