This paper is a description of the court which Napoleon briefly established on the island of Elba 鈥 a mere ten months. It is also a reflection upon Napoleon in terms of his legitimacy and kingship, and the way in which he dealt with his brief exile on the island. I have focused on...
After the first abdication of Napoleon and his exile to Elba, the Grand Orient provided support to King Louis XVIII, affirming the position that the Empire was only tyranny. This led many Freemasons to resign, especially as the Grand Orient changed its position again during the Hundred Days. ...
While Napoléon was off in Italy, Joséphine also was having an affair with Hippolyte Charles, a handsome hussar lieutenant. Eventually the news of the affair reacher her husband, who was furious. From then on, he did not love her the same as before. In fact, he began his own affair whe...
They were able to take hair samples from four different periods of Napoleon’s life from boyhood, during his exile on Elba island, the day of his death on St. Helena, and the day after his death. Although the samples showed that the levels of arsenic were greatly elevated compared t...
Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba, but after ten months he made plans to return to power. He landed in southern France in February 1815 with 1,050 soldiers and marched to Paris, where he reinstated himself to power. Louis XVIII fled, and Napoleon's new reign began. The other ...
Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, grew up in exile — the year 1815 marked the end of Napoleon I's reign. However, Napoleon III was determined to regain the French throne. He began his quest in 1832, writing various political and military tracts in an effort to make himself and ...
just 15 months after France had purchased the island from the Italian city-state of Genoa. Like many Corsicans, his parents, Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, opposed both Genoese and French rule. But when the French quickly overwhelmed local resistance fighters, Carlo began collab...
When Napoleon returned from his exile inElbaand regained the throne, the war resumed, ending with his final defeat by the allies atWaterlooon June 18, 1815. Again the victorioussovereignsmet in Paris to frame a peace treaty, and once again Alexander intervened on behalf of France. ...
his life (“What a novel my life is!” he himself had said) and began to create the Napoleoniclegend. As soon as the emperor was dead, the legend grew rapidly. Memoirs, notes, and narratives by those who had followed him into exile contributed substantially to it. In 1822 O’Meara, ...
Exile on St. Helena After Napoleon’s abdication from power in 1815, fearing a repeat of his earlier return from exile on Elba, the British government sent Napoleon to the remote island of St. Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean. He lived there for the rest of his life. For the most...