by Jean-Paul Kauffmann · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070403271
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«La Chambre noire de Longwood: Le voyage à Sainte-Hélène» is Jean-Paul Kauffmann's travel account, published by Folio in paperback, in French.
The book combines the journey to Saint Helena, where Napoleon spent his final years after Waterloo, with a reconstruction of life at Longwood: confinement, promiscuity, tedium, damp and rats. Halfway between travel chronicle and historical investigation, it argues that Napoleon was defeated by nostalgia for his glory and remorse for his past.
Edition of 368 pages; volume 3083 of the Folio collection. Winner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 1997 and the Scott Moncrieff Prize 2000.
For readers of Napoleonic history and travel writing.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann is a French journalist and writer.
