BOOK VI

Bonaparte at the Malmaison--General abandonment--Departure from the Malmaison--Rambouillet--Rochefort--Bonaparte takes refuge on the English fleet--He writes to the Prince Regent--Bonaparte on the _Bellerophon_--Torbay--Act confining Bonaparte in St Helena--He passes over to the Northumberland and sets sail--Judgment on Bonaparte--Character of Bonaparte--Has Bonaparte left us in renown what he has lost us in strength?--Futility of the truths set forth above--The Island of St. Helena--Bonaparte crosses the Atlantic--Napoleon lands at St. Helena--His establishment at Longwood--Precautions--Life at Longwood--Visits--Manzoni--Illness of Bonaparte--Ossian--Reveries of Napoleon in sight of the sea--Projects of evasion--Last occupation of Bonaparte--He lies down to rise no more--He dictates his will--Napoleon's religious sentiments--The chaplain Vignale--Napoleon's speech to Antomarchi, his doctor--He receives the last sacraments--He expires--His funeral--Destruction of the Napoleonic world--My last relations with Bonaparte--St. Helena after the death of Napoleon--Exhumation of Bonaparte--My visit to Cannes

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Louis XVIII Charles X. (as Comte D'artois) La Fayette Talleyrand Fouché, Duc d'Otrante Pius VII

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