L'autre Sainte-Hélène
Subtitle: La captivité, la maladie, la mort, et les médecins autour de Napoléon
Publisher: Albert Benhamou Publishing
Published: May 2010
Place of publication: England
Language: fre
Format: Portrait
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780956465405
Subjects: Napoleon
Genres: History
Description: The book allows the reader to delve into the history of Napoleon's captivity on the island of St. Helena, a period that was "the last phase" of an extraordinary life. Several doctors took turn at his bedside and were the instruments of the prisoner's politics, and that of his gaoler, the Governor Hudson Lowe. Sometimes agents, messengers, intermediaries, and eventually doctors, though without much success, they were unique witnesses to the closed doors world called Longwood, the residence under surveillance of Napoleon.

After nearly 200 years, the causes of illness and death continue to raise questions. When one thinks of the little regard he bore himself to medicine, we can not fail to note the irony of these controversies. But the irony has never been absent from the story of his captivity.

Drawing on his sources mainly from the manuscripts of the era, some still unpublished in France, and contrasting them with the narratives and memoirs published later, the book is "The other St. Helena", the story of the truths and the lies, less publicly known, with, for thread, these doctors who have been actors, voluntary or not, of the controversy among which they found themselves.
Notes: www.lautresaintehelene.com
Table of contents: title: Billet pour l'Amérique
label: Maingault; title: La route de l'exil
label: Warden; title: Médecin de l'empereur
label: O'Meara; title: Agent du gouverneur
label: O'Meara; title: Cavalier seul
label: O'Meara; title: Les "faux bulletins"
label: Baxter; title: Médecin de garde
label: Verling; title: Un "patient" peu ordinaire
label: Stokoe; title: Le médecin appelé désir
label: Foureau; title: Touriste à Longwood
label: Antommarchi; title: Médecin malgré lui
label: Antommarchi; title: Les 40 derniers jours
label: Arnott; title: Une autopsie et des rapports
label: Shortt; title: Mise en bière et funérailles
label: Rutledge; title: L'affaire du masque
label: Burton; title: Le retour des cendres
label: Guillard