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The invisible emperor: Napoleon on Elba from exile to escape
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From the Book
The morning of the poison lump
A lodger in his own life
Napoleon in rags
This new country
Gilded keys
Rough music
The Robinson Crusoe of Elba
My island is very little
Louis the Gouty and the weathervane man
Pretty valley, trees, forest, and water
The emperor is dead
And every tuna bows to him
A death, a treaty, and a celebration
A ridiculous noise summer
The more unfavorably does he appear
Ubicumque Felix Napoleon
Sirocco
Sultry confinement
The one-eyed count
A perfectly bourgeois simplicity
Tall Fanny and the two empresses Bonaparte
Taking the cure
Tourist season
The politics of forgetting
He is tolerably happy
The vulgar details of married lives
Don Giovanni, Cinderella, and Undine
I think he is capable of crossing over
The oil merchant and other visitors
He had been called coward!
Winter
A last goodbye
The sadness of my retirement
The (near) wreck of the Inconstant
Bourbon difficulties
Nights at the theater
Pietro St. Ernest, otherwise known as Fleury du Chaboulon
The eagle prepares for flight
The oil merchant returns
Campbell in Florence
Mardi Gras
Tower of Babel
Everything was quiet at Elba
Inconstant
At sea
Campbell lands at Elba
Our beautiful France
The partridge in pursuit
Golfe-Juan
Most reluctantly I have felt called upon to mention it
In an iron cage
Urgent
Laffrey
To contemplate all objects at a certain angle
Napoleon, Marie Louise, Campbell, and Elba.
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9780735222601