Denis, From the Tuileries to St Helena. Personal Recollections of Louis
Etienne St-Denis (1922); Firmin Didot, La Captivite de Sainte-Helene
d'apres les rapports du Marquis de Montchenu (Paris 1894); E. St-Denis,
Souvenirs du Mamelouk Ali sur l'Empereur Napoleon (Paris 1926).
Among a vast secondary literature one might point especially to: G.
Martineau, Napoleon's St Helena (1968); Julia Blackburn, The Emperor's
Last Island (1991); Jean Thiry, Sainte-Helene (Paris 1976); Earl Rosebery,
Napoleon, the Last Phase (1900); R. Korngold, The Last Years of Napoleon
(196o); Octave Aubry, St Helena (1937); W. Forsyth, History of the
Captivity of Napoleon at St Helena (1853); P. Ganiere, Napoleon a St
Helene (Paris 196o); Frederic Masson, Autour de Sainte Helene (Paris
1935); Mabel Balcombe Brookes, St Helena Story (196o); Norwood
Young, Napoleon in Exile: St Helena, 2 vols (1915); Leon Brice, Les
Espoirs de Napoleon a Saime-Helene (Paris 1938); Ernest d'Hauterive,
Sainte-Helene au temps de Napoleon et aujourd'hui (Paris 1933); Rene
Bouvier, Sainte-Helene avant Napoleon (Paris 1938); Philip Gosse, St
Helena, 1502-1938 (Shropshire 1990); J. Mougins-Roquefort, Napoleon
prisonnier par les Anglais (Paris 1978). For events in England and France
with a direct bearing on the emperor and his imprisonment see H. Kurtz,
The Trial of Marshal Ney (1957); J.P. Garnier, Charles X (Paris 1967); E.
Tangye Lean, The Napoleonists (1970); M. Thornton, England and the St
Helena Decision (1968); Roger Fulford, Samuel Whitbread, I764-I8J5: A
Study in Opposition (1967); J. Dechamps, 'Les defenseurs de Napoleon en
Grande-Bretagne de 1815 a 1830', Revue de l'Institut Napoleon (1955)
pp.129-40.
With Napoleon's death we are once again in controversial and hotly
disputed territory. An important source, in addition to Antommarchi,
etc. already cited, is Archibald Arnott, An Account of the late illness, disease
and post-mortem examination of Napoleon Bonaparte (1822). The dis
credited theory of death by cancer is rehearsed in P. Hillemand,
Pathologie de Napoleon (Paris 1970). It is significant that Antommarchi,
previously dismissed as an incompetent, has been rehabilitated: J. Poulet,
'Le cas Antommarchi', Revue de l'Institut Napoleon (1971) pp.13o-38.
Fundamental to this discussion are Simon Leys, The Death of Napoleon
(1991) and the works published by Ben Weider and Sten Forshufvud:
Assassination at St Helena (1978); Assassination at St Helena Revisited
(1995); (by Forshufud alone) Who Killed Napoleon? (1961); and by
Weider with David Hapgood, The Murder of Napoleon (1983). Their
identification of Montholon as the true killer is supported by Rene
Maury, L 'Assassin de Napoleon (Paris 1994). For the self-serving
mendacity of Montholon's memoirs see Helene Michaud, 'Q!.te vaut le
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