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"Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, if Europe's rulers had had their way. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace--all without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in granular detail and with novelistic relish, offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon's tragically-noble official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let "Boney" slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise who was twenty-two to Napoleon's forty-four, at the time of his abdication. What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history's most consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary persona" --… (meer)
Een boeiende, uitvoerige beschrijving van Napoleons eerste periode van ballingschap, op het eiland Elba, vaak een onterecht hiaat in zijn biografieën. Want misschien had de geschiedenis er wel anders uit gezien als Lodewijk XVIII de in het Verdrag van Fontainebleau voorziene betalingen had gerespecteerd. Of als Marie Louise en haar zoon Napoleon wel hadden mogen vergezellen naar Elba .. ( )
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Paradise is an island. So is hell. -- Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands (2010) . ________ .
Lucky Napoleon! This is the most beautiful island.... There is no winter in Elba; cognac is threepence a large glass; the children have web feet; the women taste of sale.... The Island I love, and I wish I were not seeing it in one of the seasons of hell. -- Dylan Thomas, postcards and letters from Elba (summer 1947) . ________ .
The Island of Elba, which a year ago was thought so disagreeable, is a paradise compared to Saint Helena. -- Napolien, on Saint Helene (February 1816)
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It all fell apart quite quickly.
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Perhaps Elbans value the association with Napoleon, for all his tremendous faults, because it makes them feel something people in Beijing, New York, Paris and elsewhere take for granted every day: the sense that at one point in history, outsiders were truly concerned about the place where they live, and that what happened there once changed the world.
"Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, if Europe's rulers had had their way. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace--all without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in granular detail and with novelistic relish, offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon's tragically-noble official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let "Boney" slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise who was twenty-two to Napoleon's forty-four, at the time of his abdication. What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history's most consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary persona" --
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Want misschien had de geschiedenis er wel anders uit gezien als Lodewijk XVIII de in het Verdrag van Fontainebleau voorziene betalingen had gerespecteerd. Of als Marie Louise en haar zoon Napoleon wel hadden mogen vergezellen naar Elba .. (