Napoleon: A Biography

executions of Ney in France and Murat in Italy, there was the humiliation of the patrie itself. The victorious Allies had rampag ...

Throughout his time at Longwood he never went outside after dark, so as not to see the sentries Lowe insisted on posting there a ...

little child.' Bertrand was also involved in a tussle with the two Corsican priests, who wished to give the Emperor the last rit ...

British surgeons, produced an official post-mortem report stating that Napoleon had a 'cancerous ulcer'. Antommarchi indignantly ...

others to sign; because he lacked seniority, his own signature did not appear on the document. Henry was the man who first divul ...

Since Napoleon's body was plump and round, like a woman's, with breasts like a woman and small, delicate, feminine hands, some h ...

Invalides in 1840 and his coffin was opened, it was found to be perfectly preserved. Since this outcome is yet another consequen ...

him, and indeed it was well known that Fanny Bertrand had long been wanting to take her children back to France. Napoleon, whose ...

Napoleon fell violently ill, one can heap up the circumstantial details that seem to incriminate him. If Montholon was a Bourbon ...

Such was the probable fate of Napoleon on St Helena. Unless an authenticated confession from Montholon is unearthed (some have c ...

CONCLUSION Napoleon's death on St Helena initially passed almost unnoticed. By a bizarre correlation, which would set those of a ...

for him many years of happiness and life, as long as it would have been far fr om me.' Given that all Napoleon's most deadly ene ...

here about the rape of Europe by the Grand Army, the thrones illicitly grabbed for the useless Bonaparte siblings, the huge hand ...

Tamerlane, who at Angora in 1402 overwhelmed the Ottoman Turks under Bayazid, fresh from his triumph over the flower of Christia ...

total deaths caused by Bonaparte's campaigns must be fo ur million at the very least, and this is likely to be a considerable un ...

and thereafter had to play roles which he derived from his reading of the ancient classics; thus was born the ultimately fatal i ...

SOURCES CHAPTER ONE The most fundamental work for Napoleon's early life is F. Masson & G. Piaggi, Napoleon Inconnu, papiers ...

Record Office (London) avec 38 lettres inedites de Pasquale Paoli (Ajaccio I983) is fu ndamental. Thad E. Hall, France and the E ...

excellent: R. I ,a ulan, 'La chere a l'Ecole Militaire au temps de Bonaparte', Revue de l'Institut Napoleon (1959) pp.18-23 and ...

Bourrienne's, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte (1923), mostly ghosted by Maxime de Villemarest, are mainly transparent nonsense and ...