Napoleon's Young Neighbor
NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBOR
NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. Frontispiece
From the painting by Delaroche
NAPOLEON'S
YOUNG NEIGHBOR
BY
HELEN LEAH REED
Author of "Brenda; Her School and Her Club," "Brenda's
Cousin at Radcliffe," "Brenda's Ward,"
"Amy in Acadia," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1907
Copyright, 1907,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1907
Alfred Mudge & Son, Inc., Printers
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
TO
DOROTHY E. B.
WHOSE LOVE OF HISTORY BESPEAKS
A WELCOME
FOR THIS LITTLE VOLUME.
PREFACE
THIS book, chronicling some little known passages in the last few years of Napoleon, is based on the "Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena," by Mrs. Abell (Elizabeth Balcombe), published in 1844 by John Murray.
Her little book is written in an old-fashioned and quiet style, and the present writer, without altering any words of Napoleon's, has, so far as possible, given a vivid form to conversations and incidents related undramatically and has rearranged incidents that Mrs. Abell told without great attention to chronology. The writer has also added many pages of matter (with close reference to the best authorities) in order to make the whole story of Napoleon clear to those who are not familiar with it.
CONTENTS
I. | 1 |
II. | 18 |
III. | 31 |
IV. | 45 |
V. | 64 |
VI. | 77 |
VII. | 95 |
VIII. | 116 |
IX. | 133 |
X. | 152 |
XI. | 170 |
XII. | 186 |
XIII. | 202 |
XIV. | 227 |
XV. | 241 |
XVI. | 253 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Napoleon at St. Helena |
Frontispiece |
Jamestown |
16 |
The Embarkation on Board the Bellerophon |
34 |
Napoleon |
80 |
The Briars |
148 |
Longwood |
202 |
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