Chapter I: 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. GREAT NEWS

II. A DISTINGUISHED TENANT

III. FROM WATERLOO TO ST. HELENA

IV. NAPOLEON AT THE BRIARS

V. BETSY'S BALL-GOWN

VI. A HORSE TAMER

VII. OFF FOR LONGWOOD

VIII. THE GOVERNOR'S RULES

IX. ALL KINDS OF FUN

X. THE SERIOUS SIDE

XI. THE EMPEROR'S VISITORS

XII. THOUGHTLESS BETSY

XIII. LONGWOOD DAYS

XIV. THE PARTING

XV. THE PANORAMA

XVI. THE LAST PICTURES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA

JAMESTOWN

THE EMBARKATION ON BOARD THE _BELLEROPHON_

NAPOLEON

THE BRIARS

LONGWOOD

NAPOLEON'S YOUNG NEIGHBOR