Author: Sir William Robertson NicollPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sir William Robertson NicollPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions
Author: VariousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A World of Wonders, with Anecdotes and Opinions Concerning Popular Superstitions is a manual that examines and explores superstitions. Excerpt: "It is surprising, considering the gigantic strides effected by modern science, how many of the errors and prejudices engendered by the ignorance of the dark ages remain current in the world in its present days of enlightenment. Like the winged seeds of certain weeds, their light and impalpable nature renders them only the more difficult of extirpation."
Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon (Vol. 1-4)
Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las CasesPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1569
Book Description
This edition in four volumes is a record of Napoleon's last years spent on the island of Saint Helena, documented by comte de Las Cases, Napoleons servant and unofficial secretary in exile. Las Cases began his journal on June 20, 1815, two days after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and continued it until his expulsion from St. Helena on orders of the island's governor, Hudson Lowe, at the end of the following year. 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 conditions of his exile. The work entered the popular imagination as something like Napoleon's own personal and political testament, and as such became a founding text in the development of the Napoleon cult and the ideology of Bonapartism.
Entertaining Anecdotes from Every Available Source
Author: James Baird McClurePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ana
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Comprehensive History of England
Author: Charles MacFarlanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Moral Tales, Anecdotes, etc. for the young
Author: Thomas Street MILLINGTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, by the Count de Las Cases -
Author: Comte Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné de Las CasesPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1782890262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Before the shattering of the Napoleonic empire in 1815, Count Las Cases had served loyally for many years in the council of state. However, his most important service was to come after he followed his Emperor into exile on St. Helena. During his time with Napoleon on the “Rock in the Atlantic”, he was to write down all that he heard from the Emperor’s mouth, as clear a stream of his thoughts and reminiscences as were ever recorded. He was to eventually publish these entries as the “Memoirs of the life...”, also known as the Mémorial de St. Hélène. They stand as a classic not just of the history of Napoleon’s times, but also of the history of the first year of his banishment. Ranging from his earliest days in Corsica to the ranging battlefields of his career, Napoleon speaks through these pages as in no other of the sources left to us today. Essential reading and the birth of the Napoleonic legend. Author — Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de, 1766-1842. Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in 1855, New York, by Red Field. Original Page Count – 400 pages. Illustrations — 4.
Anecdotes of Painting in England; with some Account of the Principal Artists
Author: Horace WalpoleThe Life, Exile and Conversations with Napoleon
Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las CasesPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1561
Book Description
This edition in four volumes is a record of Napoleon's last years spent on the island of Saint Helena, documented by comte de Las Cases, Napoleons servant and unofficial secretary in exile. Las Cases began his journal on June 20, 1815, two days after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, and continued it until his expulsion from St. Helena on orders of the island's governor, Hudson Lowe, at the end of the following year. 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 conditions of his exile. The work entered the popular imagination as something like Napoleon's own personal and political testament, and as such became a founding text in the development of the Napoleon cult and the ideology of Bonapartism.
Author: Horace Walpole