See also:

• EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

EMMANUEL AUGUSTIN See also:

• LAS

LAS CASES  DIEUDONN$ MARIN See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH, MARQI IS (1766-1842), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle of See also:

• LAS

Las Cases near Revel in See also:

• LANGUEDOC

Languedoc . He was educated at the military See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

• VENDOME
• VENDOME, LOUIS JOSEPH

Vendome and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris; he entered the See also:

• NAVY

navy and took See also:

• PART

part in various engagements of the years 1781-1782 . The outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 caused him to " emigrate," and he spent some years in See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany and See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, sharing in the disastrous See also:

• QUIBERON, CAMPAIGN AND BATTLE OF

Quiberon expedition (1795) . He was one of the few survivors and returned to See also:

• LONDON

London, where he lived in poverty . He returned to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France during the Consulate with other royalists who rallied to the See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon, and stated afterwards to the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor that he was " conquered by his See also:

• GLORY (through the O. Fr. glorie, modern gloire, from Lat. gloria, cognate with Gr. KXebs, abets)

glory." Not until 1810 did he receive much See also:

• NOTICE

notice from Napoleon, who then made him a See also:

• CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
• CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)

chamberlain and created him a See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count of the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire (he was See also:

• MARQUIS

marquis by hereditary right) . After the first See also:

• ABDICATION (Lat. abdicatio, disowning, renouncing, from ab, from, and dicare, to declare, to proclaim as not belonging to one)

abdication of the emperor (11th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1814), Las Cases retired to England, but returned to serve Napoleon during the See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred Days . The second abdication opened up for Las Cases the most noteworthy part of his career . He withdrew with the ex-emperor and a few other trusty followers to See also:

• ROCHEFORT
• ROCHEFORT, HENRI, MARQUIS DE

Rochefort; and it was Las Cases who first proposed and strongly urged the emperor to throw himself on the generosity of the See also:

• BRITISH

British nation . Las Cases made the first overtures to See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

Captain See also:

• MAITLAND (MAITLAND OF LETHINGTON), WILLIAM
• MAITLAND, EAST
• MAITLAND, EDWARD (1824-1897)
• MAITLAND, FREDERIC WILLIAM (1850-1906)
• MAITLAND, SIR RICHARD (LORD LETHINGTON) (1496-r586)

Maitland of H.M.S . " See also:

• BELLEROPHON, or BELLEROPHONTES

Bellerophon " and received a guarded reply, the nature of which he afterwards misrepresented . Las Cases accompanied the ex-emperor to St See also:

• HELENA
• HELENA, ST (c. 247-c. 327)

Helena and acted informally but very assiduously as his secretary, taking down numerous notes of his conversations which thereafter took See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in the famous Memorial de Ste Helene . The limits of this See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article preclude an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt at assessing the value of this See also:

• WORK

work .

It should be read with See also:

• GREAT

great caution, as the compiler did not See also:

• SCRUPLE

scruple to insert his own thoughts and to See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour the expressions of his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master . In some cases he misstated facts and even fabricated documents . It is far less trustworthy than the See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record penned by See also:

• GOURGAUD, GASPAR, BARON (1783-1852)

Gourgaud in his See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal . Disliked by See also:

• MONTHOLON, CHARLES TRISTAN, MARQUIS DE (1782-1853)

Montholon and Gourgaud, Las Cases seems to have sought an opportunity to leave the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island when he had accumulated sufficient See also:

• LITERARY

literary material . However that may be, he infringed the British regulations in such a way as to See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead to his See also:

• EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion by the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor, See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• HUDSON
• HUDSON, GEORGE (180o-1871)
• HUDSON, HENRY
• HUDSON, JOHN (1662–1719)

Hudson See also:

• LOWE, JOHANN KARL GOTTFRIED (1796-1869)
• LOWE, SIR HUDSON (1769-1844)

Lowe (See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, 1816) . He was sent first to the Cape of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope and thence to See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, but was not at first allowed by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVIII. to enter France . He resided at See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels; but, gaining per-See also:

• MISSION

mission to come to Paris after the See also:

• DEATH

death of Napoleon, he took up his See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence there, published the Memorial, and soon gained an enormous sum from it . He died in 1842 at Passy . See Memoires de E A . D., comie de Las Cases (Brussels, 1818) ; Memorial de Ste Helene (4 vols., London and Paris, 1823; often republished and translated) ; See also:

• SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

Suite au memorial de Ste Helene, ou observations critiques, bc . (2 vols., Paris, 1824), See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous, but known to be by See also:

• GRILLE

Grille and See also:

• MUSSET, LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE (1810-18S7)

Musset-Pathay . See too GOURGAUD, MONTHOLON, and LowE, SIR HUDSON .

(J . HL .