Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

by John Goldworth Alger

[293] Quotidienne, February 6, 1815.

[294] Temple Bar, October 1903.

[295] Ibid.

[296] Nuova Antologia, January 1887.

[297] Pons de l’Hérault, Souvenirs d’Elbe, edited by Pelissier, 1897.

[298] Ebrington’s Memorandum of Two Conversations, published in 1823 as a pamphlet of thirty-one pages and never reprinted.

[299] Earl Russell, Recollections. See Appendix C.

[300] Souvenirs de l’ile d’Elbe.

[301] We know how Napoleon as a youth detested France, regarding Corsica alone as his country, but he doubtless got to consider himself a real Frenchman.

[302] According to an English account Napoleon, on the band striking up the National Anthem, hummed the tune. (Temple Bar, October 1903.)