“It seems to me an historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil deeds and words with the fear of posterity’s denunciations,” Tacitus commented in his Annals of Imperial Rome. If Tacitus is correct, then Napoleon Bonaparte is surely one of the most fortunate of all historical figures, having managed to escape, as he has, such a confrontation with posterity. This is made all the more remarkable, in that most of his “evil deeds and words” are well documented, and recorded, and available for all to see and contemplate. By February 1815 Napoleon had decided to escape from his island prison of Elba and attempt to overthrow the newly restored and internationally recognized Bourbon monarchy in France. The period of his return is generally known as “The Hundred Days,” referring in fact to the period of Louis XVIII’s absence from the French capital, from 20 March to 8 July, in reality a duration of 121 days. [download]
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