Manuscrit venu de Sainte Hélène, d’une manière inconnue
Publisher: John Murray; Chez P. J. De Mat, Imprimeur de l’Académie
Published: 1817-04-12
Place of publication: London; Brussels
Language: fre
Number of pages: 130
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. [8], 109, [3]. Bookplate of William Williamson Willink.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Apparently a piracy of the bestselling French ‘Letter from St. Helena’ (London, 1817, see Bib# 4102975/Fr# 1340), purportedly by Napoleon and sometimes attributed (wrongly) to Madame de Staël. It was confessed to years later by Frédéric Lullin de Châteauvieux–although a recent editor of Napoleon’s own marked-up copy (Paris, 1974, see Bib# 4102979/Fr# 1344) disputes Lullin’s authorship. This piracy is sometimes cited, erroneously, as the first edition.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102977" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>