In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity
the contribution of a former member of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to
the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative
years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so,
she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini's very real
achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was
driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in
the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to
what extent his whole life was known to those around him. Vantini's
extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very
different worlds - the old imperial past and the new age of
entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political
loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by
railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view
he was a component part in the very early years of an industry
which arguably changed England and Europe more than did even his
hero, Napoleon. Scholars and casual readers of British and European
social history will be fascinated by his story.
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