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by Mark Braude


  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 Elba as site of Napoleon’s exile, 8–9

  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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