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...NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA (318 pp.)-The Journals of General Bertrand, January-May, 1821-Doubleday...
...claims descent from Josephine de Beauharnais, Napoleon's first wife...
...Capri, Raimonda Ciano, 18-year-old daughter of the late Count Galeazzo Ciano, and granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, announced her engagement to Sandro Guinta, 23, a blood descendant of Napoleon...
...would have it, they frightened the French too-right back across the Pyrenees, after one of the most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...
Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822) was an unstable Ulster aristocrat whose favorite costume (pink hunting coat and riding boots) made him a figure in Parliament. Foreign Secretary from 1812 to 1822, he stiffened the Grand Alliance that defeated Napoleon. At the Congress of Vienna, which laid the foundations for a hundred years of Pax Britannica, he put on a classic display of balance-of-power diplomacy: to counter the threat of Russo-Prussian hegemony in Europe, Castlereagh threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following...