Digital Library
The documents digitised by the Fondation Napoléon (listed here) are full searchable, and any images can be viewed using the high resolution zoom feature.
The documents digitised by the Fondation Napoléon (listed here) are full searchable, and any images can be viewed using the high resolution zoom feature.
The events which passed aboard Bellerophon between May 24th and August 8th, 1815.
[Literary fraud, first edition dated 1817 and published in French London under the title “Manuscrit venu de Sainte-Hélène de manière inconnue” by an unknown author but whom the published, Murray, implies was Napoleon. The title of the English translation (issued simultaneously by the same publisher) was “Manuscript transmitted from St Helena by an unknown channel”. Almost at the same time, many manuscript copies of the ‘manuscript’ were circulating clandestinely in France. The Emperor always denied that he was the author. Current scholarship advances Lullin de Chateauvieux, a figure close to Mme de Staël, as the mostly likely candidate.]