In the eyes of the English, to keep this cumbersome prisoner that is Napoleon, St Helena has many advantages: first, this island, in the middle of the Atlantic, is far from everything, and it is a real natural fortress.
Without forgetting that St Helena belongs to the Company of the Indies.
This detail is important, since from a legal point of view, habeas corpus, the right to defend oneself, to hire a lawyer, does not apply.
In this 600-page account, from sources that had not been exploited until then, we immerse ourselves in the heavy camera of Longwood, the last act of the Napoleonic epic which ended on May 5, 1821, under mysterious circumstances.
Find all the details of "Napoleon at St Helena" by Pierre Branda, on the website of the Mollat bookstore, in Bordeaux