Table of Contents
Maps xvi
Introduction xix
Spring
1 The Morning of the Poison Lump 3
2 A Lodger in His Own Life 11
3 Napoleon in Rags 20
4 This New Country 27
5 Gilded Keys 37
6 Rough Music 42
7 The Robinson Crusoe of Elba 48
8 My Island Is Very Little 54
9 Louis the Gouty and the Weathervane Man 59
10 Pretty Valleys, Trees, Forest, and Water 65
11 The Emperor Is Dead 72
12 And Every Tuna Bows to Him 77
13 A Death, a Treaty, and a Celebration 83
14 A Ridiculous Noise 88
Summer
15 The More Unfavorably Does He Appear 97
16 Ubicumque Felix Napoleon 102
17 Sirocco 108
18 Sultry Confinement 112
19 The One-Eyed Count 117
20 A Perfectly Bourgeois Simplicity 122
21 Tall Fanny and the Two Empresses Bonaparte 127
22 Taking the Cure 130
23 Tourist Season 133
24 The Politics of Forgetting 142
Fall
25 He Is Tolerably Happy 151
26 The Vulgar Details of Married Lives 156
27 Don Giovanni, Cinderella, and Undine 161
28 I Think He Is Capable of Crossing Over 166
29 The Oil Merchant and Other Visitors 170
30 He Had Been Called Coward! 175
Winter
31 A Last Goodbye 181
32 The Sadness of My Retirement 183
33 The (Near) Wreck of the Inconstant 185
34 Bourbon Difficulties 189
35 Nights at the Theater 194
36 Pietro St. Ernest, Otherwise Known as Fleury du Chaboulon 198
37 The Eagle Prepares for Flight 204
38 The Oil Merchant Returns 206
39 Campbell in Florence 208
40 Mardi Gras 212
41 Tower of Babel 216
42 Everything Was Quiet at Elba 221
43 Inconstant 225
44 At Sea 230
45 Campbell Lands at Elba 236
46 Our Beautiful France 243
47 The Partridge in Pursuit 246
48 Golfe-Juan 248
49 Most Reluctantly I Have Felt Called Upon to Mention It 252
50 In an Iron Cage 254
51 Urgent 256
52 Laffrey 261
53 To Contemplate All Objects at a Certain Angle 263
Epilogue: Napoleon, Marie Louise, Campbell, and Elba 266
Postscript 277
Acknowledgments 281
A Note on Sources 282
Notes 283
Bibliography 333
Index 351
