at George III’s birthday celebration, 92
in march to Paris, 249
mutual enmity of Campbell and, 35
and Napoleon’s arrival on Elba, 33–36
on Napoleon’s fondness for soldierly scuttlebutt, 48
and Napoleon’s hunt for country villa, 104–5, 308n
and Napoleon’s plans for escape from Elba, 196–97, 205
Napoleon’s relationship with, 92
and Napoleon’s visit to Rio mines, 50–53
on Napoleon’s welcome to Elba, 40
on Pauline’s arrival at Elba, 157
republican sympathies of, 34, 53
Rio house of, 105
and San Cristino feast, 88–89
tax crisis and, 99
Pons de l’Hérault, Madame, 50, 51, 88, 92
Pope, Alexander, 307n
Portoferraio, Elba, 31, 33, 36, 57, 97–98, 110, 111, 125, 139, 158, 170, 200, 219, 223, 236, 275
defenses of, 80
Napoleon’s imperial residence in, see Mulini palace
Napoleon’s sailing from, 228–29, 230
Napoleon’s welcoming celebration at, 37–41
San Cristino feast in, 88–89
Tunisian corsair’s visit to, 153, 168, 172
Porto Longone (Porto Azzurro), Elba, 31–32, 57, 104, 137
garrison of, 80
Pozzo di Borgo, Count Andrea, 143, 257
Provisional Government, French, 20, 24, 70, 84, 289n
public opinion:
authority and, 146, 314n
Napoleon’s understanding of, 78
Rambouillet, France, 17, 46–47, 298n
Raza, Roustam, 18
Regency Council, 286n–87n
Ricci (Campbell’s Elban agent), 112, 168, 175, 209, 215, 232–33
Campbell told of Napoleon’s true destination by, 239–40
Rio Alta, Elba, 51
Rio iron mines, 50, 51–53, 56, 98–99, 210
Rio Marina, Elba, 31, 51
Pons’s house at, 105
Robespierre, Maximilien, 287n
Roberts, Andrew, 325n
Rome, 114
Route Napoléon, 269
Royale, Madame, 147
Sacy, Silvestre, baron de, 103
Saint-Cannat, France, 23
Saint-Denis, Louis-Étienne “Ali,” 157
Saint-Esprit, 213, 228
Saint-Florent, Corsica, 186
Saint Helena, 128, 159–60, 164, 205, 219, 232, 233, 249, 269, 279
chosen as site of Napoleon’s second exile, 268
Saint-Joseph, 196, 213
San Cristino feast, 88–89
Sané, Jacques-Noel, 232
San Martino, Elba, 205
Napoleon’s villa at, 105–7, 158, 159
Santini, Giovanni Natale, 21, 25, 28, 33, 156
Sardinia, 55
Schalansky, Judith, ix
Schönbrunn palace, 117–18
Schwarzenberg, Prince, 257, 294n, 297n
Scott, John Barber, 139, 141
Scott, Walter, 192
Seneca, 288n, 290n, 308n
Shuvalov, Count of Russia, 14
Sicily, 55
Sierra Leone, 274
Smith, Sidney, 26, 113, 165
Speer, Albert, 272
Staël, Germaine de, 143–44, 314n
Stahremberg, Count, 113
Stendhal, 269
Stewart, Charles, 259, 288n
Swallow, 90, 91, 92
Taillade, Captain, 80, 185–87, 199, 245
in escape from Elba, 243
Talavo, Pogg di, 40, 66–67
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles-Maurice de, 4, 54, 61, 77, 85, 132, 158, 161, 189, 190, 287n, 314n
Bourbon restoration and, 5, 63–64, 286n, 300n–301n
at Congress of Vienna, 164, 319n
and Fontainebleau treaty terms, 289n
and issue of Napoleon’s exile, 164, 171
and Napoleon’s escape from Elba, 257–58, 260
Teatro dei Vigilanti, Portoferraio, 195–96
Tell, William, 161
Terror, 287n
Theologue, 200
Thibaudeau, Antoine, 192–93
Thomas, Dylan, ix
Thomson, Captain, 224
Tolentino, battle of, 270
Toulon, France, 251
British siege of, 34
Traditi (Portoferraio mayor), 37, 39, 40, 66, 227
Tuileries, 146, 254
Napoleon’s capture of, 267
Tunisia, Tunisians, 153, 168, 172, 315n
Tuscany, 134, 224, 230, 257
Undaunted, HMS, 24–25, 26, 34, 35, 50, 293n
Napoleon’s disembarkation from, 38–39
in return to Fréjus, 75
in second voyage to Elba, 76, 78
in voyage to Elba, 27–31, 32–33, 295n
Underwood, Thomas, xvii, 61–62
Ussher, Thomas, 24, 25, 26, 70, 82, 103, 293n–94n
in arrival on Elba, 38, 40
in gift of barge from Undaunted to Napoleon, 80
and Napoleon’s search for suitable residences, 48–50
in return to Fréjus, 75
in second voyage to Elba, 76, 78, 303n
in voyage to Elba, 28–29, 295n
Valéry, Paul, 277
Vantini (chief prosecutor of Elba), 40, 66, 122
Vantini, Henriette, 68, 302n
Versailles, 146–47
Vienna, 46, 117–18, 121
French capture of, 42
Marie Louise in, 117–18
Vienna, Congress of, 86, 131, 134, 153, 162, 163, 210–11, 274, 305n, 317n, 319n
Alexander’s proposal for, 305n
and Marie Louise’s Italian claims, 270
and Napoleon’s escape from Elba, 258, 259–60
Napoleon’s exile as issue at, 164–65, 166
Vincent, colonel, 93
Vivian (Welsh copper-master), 173
Voltaire, 307n, 310n
Voyage to the Isle of Elba (Berneaud), 30–31, 67, 296n
Wagram, battle of, 22
Waldbourg-Truchsess, General, 14
Wales, Princess of, 161
Walewska, Marie, Countess, 16–17, 43, 45, 172
in visit to Elba, 135–37, 312n–13n
Walewski, Alexandre, 45, 285n, 313n
in visit to Elba, 135–37
War of 1812, 188
Waterloo, battle of, 267, 272, 275
Weber, Max, 147
Weil, Simone, 267
Wellington, Duke of, 15, 272
as ambassador to France, 154, 159
Woloch, Isser, 287n, 306n
Yvan (Napoleon’s physician), 3–4, 285n
Zéphir, 230–31, 232
Inconstant’s encounter with, 233–34, 325n
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mark Braude has been a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Stanford University and was named a 2017 Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic. His first book, Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle was published in 2016. Mark lives in Vancouver with his wife.
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