6 x 9 inches, 800 pages, 150 illustrations.

'Anyone interested in Napoleon, his mind and method, and his life in exile, will find this volume of Marchand's memoirs mandatory reading.' -
                            Dr Donald D. Horward

Louis Marchand was Napoleon's devoted valet and better placed than anyone to record the Emperor's habits, relationships and views on the events that dominated the closing years of his empire and his life in exile. Marchand's testimony, untranslated and unavailable until now, provides key evidence to support the theory that Napoleon was poisoned on St Helena by a Bourbon agent.

Marchand captures the dramatic and commonplace events in the imperial palaces of the Tuileries and Fontainebleau between 1812 and 1814, Napoleon's exile on Elba, the Hundred Days, events on HMS Bellerophon and HMS Northumberland - when Napoleon hoped for, but was denied, sanctuary in England - and Napoleon's final exile on St Helena.

The editor, Proctor Jones, is an authority on Napoleon and the author of Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy, 1800-1814. Jean Tulard, Professor at the Sorbonne, is the leading historian of Europe under Napoleon.

• An intimate account of Napoleon's final years

 
• The most detailed eyewitness account available of Napoleon in exile

 
• Dramatic evidence that Napoleon was poisoned on St Helena

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