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| Las Cases, Emmanuel, comte de |
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( mänül´ kôNt d läs käz) (KEY) , 1766–1842, French historian. He accompanied Napoleon into exile to St. Helena, where the emperor dictated a part of his memoirs to him. His famous Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (tr. 8 vol. in 4, 1823) is a primary source, although not always an accurate one, for Napoleon’s last years and his judgment of himself. The Mémorial became something of a bible to Napoleon-worshipers. |
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