![]() Lately, the monstre sacré can be seen and heard all over. Helena was suitably distant and isolated as a place of exile for “General Bonaparte,” such that “all intrigue would be impossible and, being so far from the European world, he would soon be forgotten.” Yes, nobody will notice him-well, except maybe Goethe, who thought this life “the stride of a demigod.” A month after Waterloo, the British prime minister, Lord Liverpool, wrote to his foreign secretary, Lord Castlereagh, in Vienna, to suggest that St. ![]() ‘The Coronation of Napoleon’ detail of a painting by Jacques-Louis David, 1806–1807Īndrew Roberts recounts yet another tale about Napoleon. ![]() Musée du Louvre, Paris/Erich Lessing/Art Resource ![]()
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