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Napoleon and Betsy - Recollections of Napoleon at St Helena (Hardcover)
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Napoleon and Betsy - Recollections of Napoleon at St Helena (Hardcover)
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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.
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