Napoleon Betsy

Author : Lucia Elizabeth Abell
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781551356

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Napoleon & Betsy by Lucia Elizabeth Abell Pdf

The story of Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe is an unusual and fascinating tale. A fallen Emperor who once controlled most of Europe makes friends with an impudent, pretty and spirited young English girl, just about the celebrate her thirteenth birthday. Betsy produced a book full of interest, but notwithstanding that the book wanders backwards and forward chronologically, the general tenor of the relationship between this young girl and Napoleon is beyond question, and it was of an unusual and extremely friendly nature. Napoleon's fall from an unprecedented position of power to humiliating confinement must have been an impossible burden to have lived with, and yet, despite this - or possibly because of it - Napoleon befriended this child and held genuine affection for her. Despite the naivety, the warmth of the friendship between the ex-emperor and little 'Mees' Balcombe shines through, and her text is well-worth providing in this new edition. Napoleon was at the Briars for eight weeks, but the family were very close to the community at Longwood, some two miles further up hill and inland, and visited weekly, sometimes more often. It was here, as Betsy matured and grew more responsible, that the friendship developed, to the extent that she assisted Napoleon with his attempts at English. She was daring as well as impudent and with an irrepressible sense of humour she unlocked the inner child in Napoleon that led to the famous friendship. He found her boldness amusing and occasionally alarming. It must have been a welcome diversion from his darker thoughts.

Author : Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015495914

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Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell Pdf

Author : Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
Publisher : Ravenhall Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1905043031

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To Befriend an Emperor by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell Pdf

Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man, he took his family with him. Life was bleak in Balcombe's bungalow on the fringe of James Town. But then, in October 1815, the situation was transformed by the arrival of an unusual visitor. Napoleon Bonaparte, one-time master of Europe, now prisoner and exile, stepped ashore. The Balcombes, like all the islanders, were amazed. And even more so when Napoleon, taking a fancy to their bungalow (the Briars) moved in with them. Betsy, overcoming her surprise at sharing her home with an emperor, delighted in his company and the two became firm friends. Miss Betsy Balcombe made the most of her time with the world's most famous prisoner, keenly observing all around her, noting down conversations, recording moods. The result is a unique set of memoirs which records in astonishing detail an almost unbelievable story. That of how a precocious teenager and an emperor talked, argued, played, confided and teased their way through grim years of exile on the barren rock of St Helena. This attractive, illustrated edition brings this remarkable story back to life.

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760112936

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Betsy and the Emperor by Anne Whitehead Pdf

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a local merchant, Betsy Balcombe. Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's last years on Saint Helena, revealing the central role of the Balcombe family. She also lays to rest two centuries of speculation about Betsy's relationship with Napoleon. After Napoleon's death, Betsy travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father, who was appointed the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. When the family lost their fortune, she returned to London and published a memoir that made her a celebrity. With her extraordinary connections to royalty and high society, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance, but she was always fighting for her independence. This new account reveals Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time. 'Anne Whitehead deftly weaves a lively, poignant tale of Napoleon's last years on St Helena and the precocious teenager whose impudent charm briefly enlivened his exile. Her indefatigable pursuit of a tantalising archival trail takes her readers from St Helena to England, Scotland, France and New South Wales, uncovering a life curiously shadowed by its early brush with fame.' - Professor Penny Russell, University of Sydney

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925267693

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The Emperor's Shadow by Anne Whitehead Pdf

After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years until his death, he was an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed and entertained by Betsy Balcombe, the pretty teenage daughter of a local merchant. Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's time on St Helena and the web of connections around the globe which framed his last years. Betsy's father, William Balcombe, was well-connected in London, and he smuggled letters and undertook a clandestine mission to Paris for Napoleon. Betsy's friendship with Napoleon cast a shadow over the rest of her colourful life. She married a Regency cad, who soon left her and their daughter, and she travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father, who was appointed the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. After her father was exposed for fraud and the family lost their fortune, she returned to London and published a memoir which turned her into a celebrity. With her extraordinary connections to royalty in London and to the Bonaparte family and their courtiers, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance. This new account reveals Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time.

Author : Staton Rabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1435280431

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Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin Pdf

In 1815 on the remote island of Saint Helena, fourteen-year-old Betsy Balcombe develops a friendship with Napoleon Bonaparte who, after his defeat at Waterloo, is brought there as an exile and is housed with her family.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385351621

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Wondrous Beauty by Carol Berkin Pdf

From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England. In Wondrous Beauty, Carol Berkin tells the story of this audacious, outsized life. We see how the news of the union infuriated Napoleon and resulted in his banning the then ­pregnant Betsy Bonaparte from disembarking in any European port, offering his brother the threat of remaining married to that “American girl” and forfeiting all wealth and power—or renouncing her, marrying a woman of Napoleon’s choice, and reaping the benefits. Jérôme ended the marriage posthaste and was made king of Westphalia; Betsy fled to England, gave birth to her son and only child, Jérôme’s namesake, and was embraced by the English press, who boasted that their nation had opened its arms to the cruelly abandoned young wife. Berkin writes that this naïve, headstrong American girl returned to Baltimore a wiser, independent woman, refusing to seek social redemption or a return to obscurity through a quiet marriage to a member of Baltimore’s merchant class. Instead she was courted by many, indifferent to all, and initiated a dangerous game of politics—a battle for a pension from Napoleon—which she won: her pension from the French government arrived each month until Napoleon’s exile. Using Betsy Bonaparte’s extensive letters, the author makes clear that the “belle of Baltimore” disdained America’s obsession with moneymaking, its growing ethos of democracy, and its rigid gender roles that confined women to the parlor and the nursery; that she sought instead a European society where women created salons devoted to intellectual life—where she was embraced by many who took into their confidence, such as Madame de Staël, Madame Récamier, the aging Marquise de Villette (goddaughter of Voltaire), among others—and where aristocracy, based on birth and breeding rather than commerce, dominated society. Wondrous Beauty is a riveting portrait of a woman torn between two worlds, unable to find peace in either—one a provincial, convention-bound new America; the other a sophisticated, extravagant Old World Europe that embraced freedoms, a Europe ultimately swallowed up by decadence and idleness. A stunning revelation of an extraordinary age.

Author : Staton Rabin
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 141691336X

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Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin Pdf

"Think, my dear -- just think what it will be like, to be known as the girl who freed the great Napoleon Bonaparte!" Fourteen-year-old English girl Betsy Balcombe and her family have an unusual houseguest: Napoleon Bonaparte, former emperor of France and the most feared man on earth. Once lord and master to eighty-two million souls, now, in 1815, Napoleon is a captive of the British people. Stripped of his empire and robbed of his young family and freedom, he is confined to the forbidding, rat-infested island of St. Helena. The one bright star in Napoleon's black sky is Betsy, a blazingly rebellious teenager whose family is reluctantly housing the notorious prisoner. Betsy is the only foreigner Napoleon's ever met who is not impressed by him -- and Napoleon is more than intrigued. An unexpected alliance is formed. And a remarkable friendship between emperor and girl spawns gossip, and inspires Betsy to hatch a daring and dangerous scheme that could threaten both their lives and shake entire empires to their foundations.

Author : Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell,Alan Sutton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1781550344

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Napoleon and Betsy by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell,Alan Sutton Pdf

This is the fascinating tale of a fallen Emperor, who became the best friend of this thirteen-year-old English girl. It is the first modern edition of this classic text. Napoleon and Betsy, a major Hollywood film, is currently in production starring Al Pacino as Napoleon and Emma Watson as Betsy.

Author : Betsy (Elizabeth) Balcombe
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786255815

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Recollections Of The Emperor Napoleon, During The First Three Years Of His Captivity On The Island Of St. Helena by Betsy (Elizabeth) Balcombe Pdf

“Young Elizabeth Balcombe, or Betsy to friends and family, found life on the remote island of St Helena intolerably dull. Most fourteen-year-olds would. Her father had been posted to that unforgiving station in the Atlantic and, being a family man, he took his family with him. Life was bleak in Balcombe’s bungalow on the fringe of James Town. But then, in October 1815, the situation was transformed by the arrival of an unusual visitor. Napoleon Bonaparte, one-time master of Europe, now prisoner and exile, stepped ashore. The Balcombes, like all the islanders, were amazed. And even more so when Napoleon, taking a fancy to their bungalow (the Briars) moved in with them. Betsy, overcoming her surprise at sharing her home with an emperor, delighted in his company and the two became firm friends. Miss Betsy Balcombe made the most of her time with the world’s most famous prisoner, keenly observing all around her, noting down conversations, recording moods. The result is a unique set of memoirs which records in astonishing detail an almost unbelievable story. That of how a precocious teenager and an emperor talked, argued, played, confided and teased their way through grim years of exile on the barren rock of St Helena.”-Print ed.

Author : Helen Leah Reed
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664563941

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Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed Pdf

In 'Napoleon's Young Neighbor', author Helen Leah Reed brings to life little-known moments in the final years of Napoleon Bonaparte's life. Based on 'Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena' by Mrs. Abell, this semi-fictional novel takes a vivid and engaging approach to conversations and incidents related in Mrs. Abell's book. With added pages of historical context and a rearranged narrative, the book offers a comprehensive look at the life of Napoleon, from his defeat at Waterloo to his final days on St. Helena island. From the excitement of ball-gowns to the serious side of politics, readers will be transported to the world of Napoleon and those around him in this engaging and well-researched novel.

Author : Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108035408

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Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon by Elizabeth Balcombe Abell Pdf

First published in 1844, these memoirs recount a child's friendship with the exiled Bonaparte on St Helena.

Author : Elizabeth Balcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1782820442

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Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helen by Elizabeth Balcombe Pdf

The girl and the monarch Lucia Elizabeth (Betsy) Balcombe was born in 1802, the second child of William Balcombe, an official of the Honourable East India Company, and his wife Jane, who were living with their family in a cottage called The Briars, on the remote Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena. Betsy and her older sister were educated in England, but in 1814 they returned to St Helena to rejoin their parents and younger brothers. After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the allied powers had taken a liberal line on his exile and Napoleon was living like a monarch on the island of Elba, between the Italian coast and his own birthplace Corsica. Escape was inevitable and a small matter for a man of such resourcefulness, determination and ambition. In June of 1815 Napoleon and his army came to ruin on the muddy slopes of Waterloo in Belgium, thus putting to end to his 100 day gamble to wrench the crown from the weak Bourbon monarchy. No one was prepared to risk unleashing Napoleon on the world stage again and St Helena, containing a garrison and constantly circled by watchful warships, was as remote a prison as there was in the early 19th century. Napoleon's residence, Longwood House, was not ready to receive him by the time of his arrival on the island in October of 1815, so he was temporarily housed in a pavilion close to The Briars. So it was that a young French speaking English girl came into contact with the man who had set Europe ablaze. She was initially terrified of him, but gradually friendship blossomed between the teenager and the 47 year old emperor. Eventually she came to call him 'Boney' to his face-something that would have had strong men quaking in their boots-without earning a rebuke. This remarkable story of a totally unlikely relationship will enchant everyone interested in Napoleon as a man rather than as a military leader. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101013430028

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Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon, on the Island of St. Helena by Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe Abell Pdf