LITMIR.BIZ

Volumes I

       Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       INTRODUCTION.

       RETURN OF THE EMPEROR TO THE ELYSÉE, AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO.

       THE ABDICATION.

       DEPUTATION OF THE CHAMBER OF PEERS.—CAULAINCOURT.—FOUCHÉ.

       THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT PRESENTED TO THE EMPEROR.

       THE EMPEROR QUITS THE ELYSÉE.

       THE MINISTER OF MARINE COMES TO MALMAISON.

       NAPOLEON QUITS MALMAISON, AND DEPARTS FOR ROCHEFORT.

       EMBARKATION OF THE EMPEROR.

       EMBARKATION OF NAPOLEON ON BOARD THE BELLEROPHON.

       SUMMARY DICTATED BY NAPOLEON HIMSELF.

       MINISTERIAL DECISION.

       COMMUNICATION MADE BY LORD KEITH, IN THE NAME OF THE ENGLISH MINISTERS.

       REMARKABLE WORDS OF THE EMPEROR.

       DEPARTURE FROM PLYMOUTH.—CONTINUANCE IN THE CHANNEL.—PROTEST.

       PROTEST.

       ANCHORED OFF START POINT.—PERSONS ALLOWED TO ACCOMPANY THE EMPEROR.

       ORDER FROM LORD KEITH TO CAPTAIN MAITLAND OF THE BELLEROPHON.

       INSTRUCTIONS OF MINISTERS TO ADMIRAL COCKBURN.

       CONVERSATION WITH LORD KEITH.—EXAMINATION OF THE EMPEROR’S EFFECTS.—HE QUITS THE BELLEROPHON.—SEPARATION.—WE SAIL FOR ST. HELENA.

       DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPEROR’S CABIN ON BOARD THE NORTHUMBERLAND.

       LOST SIGHT OF LAND.—REFLECTIONS.—ARGUMENT AGAINST THE ENGLISH MINISTERS.

       THE EMPEROR’S MODE OF LIVING ON BOARD THE NORTHUMBERLAND.

       SINGULAR GOOD FORTUNE OF THE EMPEROR.

       CONTINUATION OF THE VOYAGE.—OCCUPATIONS.—THE EMPEROR’S ORIGIN AND FAMILY.—ANECDOTES.

       MADEIRA, &c.—VIOLENT GALE.—CHESS.

       THE CANARIES.—PASSING THE TROPIC.—DETAILS OF THE EMPEROR’S CHILDHOOD.—NAPOLEON AT BRIENNE.—PICHEGRU.—NAPOLEON AT THE MILITARY SCHOOL IN PARIS.—IN THE ARTILLERY.—HIS COMPANIONS.—NAPOLEON AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE REVOLUTION.

       CAPE VERD ISLANDS.—NAPOLEON AT THE SIEGE OF TOULON.—RISE OF DUROC AND JUNOT.—NAPOLEON QUARRELS WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE.—QUARRELS WITH AUBRY.—ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO VENDEMIAIRE.—NAPOLEON GENERAL OF THE ARMY OF ITALY.—INTEGRITY OF HIS MILITARY ADMINISTRATION.—HIS DISINTERESTEDNESS.—NICK-NAMED PETIT-CAPORAL.—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SYSTEM OF THE DIRECTORY AND THAT OF THE GENERAL OF THE ARMY OF ITALY.

       THE EMPEROR DETERMINES TO WRITE HIS MEMOIRS.

       TRADE-WIND.—THE LINE.

       A STORM.—EXAMINATION OF CERTAIN LIBELS UPON THE EMPEROR.—GENERAL REFLECTIONS.

       EMPLOYMENT OF OUR TIME.

       ACCIDENTAL PHENOMENON.—PASSAGE OF THE LINE.—CHRISTENING.

       THE EMPEROR’S METHOD OF DICTATING.

       A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

       COMPLAINTS OF THE CREW AGAINST THE ADMIRAL.—EXAMINATION OF ANOTHER WORK.—REFUTATIONS.—REFLECTIONS.

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