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 For nearly 200 years, numerous publications and articles related to the captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena have opted to defend a theory, or a character, sometimes to the detriment of another. The approach of this work has been to compare the testimonial of various actors in the drama of St. Helena, and those of their contemporaries, in an attempt to remove a more authentic version of events. The testimonials, to the extent possible, are from manuscripts of the period, rather than the published versions, which often have only offered partial reproduction, or even biased, from the original writings. The following list
is
not exhaustive.
The complete references are detailed in the book itself. Note: some of these sources are now available on line through various publoic web sites such as Google Books, Archive.org ; links have been provided below, and will be enriched when new documents will become digitized over the time FRENCH MANUSCRIPTS Archives Napoléon AN 400AP  Napoleon's will Journal de Sainte-Hélène de Gourgaud  Cahiers du grand-maréchal Bertrand  ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS  Archives of Hudson Lowe (so-called Lowe Papers) Private archives of Bathurst family with the kind permission of The Rt. Hon. The Earl Bathurst Archives of Lord Liverpool Archives of sir Robert Wilson Secret diary of Gideon Gorrequer    BOOKS IN FRENCH (look at the French page/flag, in the Menu, for most links) Antommarchi, Les derniers moments de Napoléon (1819-1821), 1823. Balmain, Le Prisonnier de Sainte-Hélène, 1897. Bertrand, Arthur, Lettres sur l’expédition de Sainte Hélène en 1840, 1841. Bonaparte, Joseph, Mémoires et correspondance politique et militaire du roi Joseph, 1854.
Bouges, Etienne, Souvenirs d’un témoin de Sainte-Hélène, 1976. Candé-Montholon, François de, Journal secret d’Albine de Montholon, maîtresse de Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, Paris, 2002. Fleischmann, Hector, Le Roi Joseph Bonaparte, Lettres d’Exil inédites, 1912. Gonnard, Philippe, Lettres du comte et de la comtesse de Montholon (1819-1821), 1906.Gourgaud, Général Baron, Sainte-Hélène, Journal inédit de 1815 à 1818, Vicomte de Grouchy et Antoine Guillois, 1899. Gourgaud, Général Baron, Journal de Sainte-Hélène, 1815-1818, préface et notes par Octave Aubry, 1944. Gourgaud, Gaspard, Le retour de Sainte-Hélène du général Gourgaud, par Jacques Macé, 2003. Gourgaud, Gaspard, Le Retour des Cendres de l’empereur Napoléon, 1898, 2003. Guizot, François, Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de mon temps, 1862. Héreau, J., Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, opinion d’un médecin sur la maladie de l’Empereur Napoléon etc., 1829. Hortense, Mémoires de la Reine Hortense, 1927.Las Cases, Emmanuel de, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Las Cases, Emmanuel Pons Dieudonné, baron de, Journal écrit à bord de la frégate Belle-Poule, 1841. Macé, Jacques, L’honneur retrouvé du général de Montholon, 2000. Macé, Jacques, Le Dictionnaire historique de Sainte-Hélène, 2004 Macé, Jacques, Le général Gourgaud, 2006. Marchand, Louis, Mémoires de Marchand, 1952-1955. Millington, Abraham, mémorandum publié dans le Ceylon Chronicle, 1838. Montchenu, La Captivité de Sainte-Hélène, etc, 1894. Montholon, Récits de la Captivité de l’empereur Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène, 1847. Napoléon, Observations on Lord Bathurst’s speech in the House of Peers on March 18, 1817, 1818.
Nicholls, Journal du capitaine George Nicholls, 1921-1922. Noverraz, Account of the expedition of 1840
Pasquier, Etienne-Denis, Mémoires du Chancelier Pasquier, 1897. Planat, Vie de Planat de la Faye, Souvenirs, lettres et dictées, etc, 1895. Pozzo di Borgo, Correspondance diplomatique etc, 1890. Prokesch-Osten, Mes relations avec le Duc de Reichstadt, 1934. Pujol, Louis-Joseph, Napoléon – De la vallée du tombeau au dôme des Invalides, etc, 1841. Richelieu, Armand du Plessis, duc de, Lettres du duc de Richelieu au marquis d’Osmond, 1816-1818, 1939. Rohan-Chabot, Philippe de, Les cinq cercueils de l’empereur, Souvenirs inédits etc, 1984. Roy-Henry, Bruno, Napoléon, L’énigme de l’exhumé de Sainte-Hélène, 2003. Saint-Denis, Louis-Etienne, Mameluck Ali, Souvenirs sur l’empereur Napoléon, 2000. Saint-Denis, Louis-Etienne, Mameluck Ali, Journal inédit du Retour des Cendres 1840, 2003. Stokoe,
John, Napoléon
prisonnier. Mémoires d’un médecin de l’empereur à Sainte-Hélène,
1900. English version With Napoleon at St. Helena (1902)
from Edith
Stokoe Stürmer, Napoléon à Sainte Hélène – Rapports officiels du baron Stürmer, 1888. Verling, Journal du docteur James-Roche Verling, 1921-1922, 1998. Versini, Xavier , M. de Buonaparte, 1977.  Play at St. Helena, march 1821: doesn't the title sound familiar? BOOKS IN ENGLISH Abell, Recollections
of the Emperor Napoleon on the island of St. Helena, 1845. Book Alexander, Captain Charles C., Record of the exhumation of the body of Napoleon, 1912, 1987. Arnott, Archibald, An Account of the Last Illness, Dicease and Post-Mortem Appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1822. Book
Bingham, George, More light on St. Helena, 1901. Bingham, George, Wellington’s Lieutenant – Napoleon’s Gaoler, 2004. Bunbury, Henry, Memoir and Literary Remains, 1868. BookChaplin, Arnold, Thomas Shortt (Principal Medical Officer in St. Helena), etc, 1914. Cockburn, George, Napoleon's last voyage, Extract from a diary of Rear-Admiral sir George Cockburn, 1888. Book of 1833Creevey,
Thomas, The
Creevey’s Papers, 1903. Book Croker,
John Wilson, The Croker papers etc,
1884. Book Darling, Andrew, Napoleon’s Funeral – A lost record, 1915. Darroch,
Duncan, lettre
à sa
mère, mai 1821, cité
dans l’ouvrage de Sir Lees Knowles. Book See from page 189 Emmett, Major-General A., Extracts from the diary of Major-General A. Emmett, 1912, 1987. Forsyth, William, History of the Captivity of Napoleon in St. Helena, 1853. Vol.1 Vol.2 Vol.3 Glover, J.R., Napoleon's
last
voyage, 1893, in Book Henry, Walter, Events of a Military Life, 1843. Book
Hobhouse, John Cam, Lord Broughton, Recollections of a long life, 1909-1911. Vol.1 Vol.2 Vol.3 Vol.4 Vol.5 Holland, Lord Henri
Edouard, Foreign Reminiscences,
1851. Book Home,
George,
Memoirs of an Aristocrat, 1837 Book Jackson, Basil, A slight tribute to the memory of Sir Hudson Lowe, 1844. Janisch,
Hudson Ralph, St. Helena Records,
1885. Book Knowles, Sir Lees, Letters of Captain Engelbert Lutyens, Feb. 1820 to Nov. 1823, 1915. Book
Liverpool, The Life and Administration of Robert Banks, Second Earl of Liverpool, 1868. Vol.1 Lyttleton,
W.H., Some
account of Napoleon Bonaparte’s coming on board HMS Northumberland,
1836. Excerpts Malcolm,
Lady, The Journal of Lady Malcolm, 1899. Book O’Meara, Barry, An exposition of some of the transactions etc, London, 1819. Book
The secret letters of O'Meara to Finlaison
O’Meara, Barry, A Voice from St. Helena, 1822. Vol.1 Vol.2 Richards,
Alfred Bates,
Wilson, Andrew, Baddeley, St
Clair, A sketch of the career of Richard
Burton (Al-Haj
Abdullah), etc, 1886. Book Russell,
Lady
Constance, Swallowfield
and its
Owners, Longmans, 1901. Book Scott, Walter, Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 1827.
Seaton, Robert Cooper, Sir Hudson Lowe and Napoleon, 1898. Shorter,
Clement, Napoleon in his own defence,
1910. Book Vernon,
B.J., Early
recollections of Jamaica, etc, 1848. Book Warden,
William, Letters written on board H.M.S. the
Northumberland
and at St Helena
[…],1816. Book Watson,
George L. de St.
M., A Polish exile etc,
1912. Book Younghusband, S.A.C., Mrs, Letters from St. Helena, 1947. PERIODICALS IN FRENCH Carnet de la Sabretache Hépato-GastroJournal des débats politiques et littéraires L’Ambigu L’Intermédiaire des Chercheurs et des Curieux La Semaine Littéraire Le Correspondant Médecine ArméesNouvelle Revue Rétrospective Revue Bleue Revue de l’Institut Napoléon Revue de Paris Revue des Deux Mondes Revue des Etudes Napoléoniennes Revue du Souvenir Napoléonien PERIODICALS IN ENGLISH Blackwood’s Magazine British
Medical Journal Archives Ceylon Chronicle Cornhill Magazine Journal of
American
Medical
Association Archives London Gazette London Medical Magazine Morning Chronicle Nature Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyThe Albion
The Century The Times Archives
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