Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

This work surveys British visitors and detainees in France between 1801 and 1815, cataloguing the many kinds of travellers—politicians, soldiers, sailors, artists, savants, émigrés and claimants—and recounting their amusements, impressions of Parisian life, and social encounters with the Napoleonic regime. It traces the rupture of peace, detentions and conditions of captivity (with attention to life at Verdun), escapes and diplomatic interventions, and the shifting fortunes around the two restorations, including visits to Elba and St. Helena. Appendices provide lists of MPs and peers, a newly published eyewitness narrative, and an index of names.