Word: ragusa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also showed slides of the region of Ragusa and Jugoslavia...
...undecided between the Bourbons and Napoleon's son, anxious to avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid a showdown. The Sixth Corps of the French Army, under the square-faced, conscientious, devoted Duke of Ragusa, was at Essonnes, close to Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform Ragusa of the changed plans, proceed to Paris with Napoleon's abdication, stall for time in negotiations with Alexander, while Napoleon maneuvered his troops and those of Ragusa in preparation for battle out side the city walls. The threat...
When Caulaincourt arrived at Essonnes, he found Ragusa acting queerly. An emissary from the Allied field headquarters nearby had arrived at the same moment. Puzzled Caulaincourt ran down to the courtyard to see about getting through the Allied lines, found when he returned that Ragusa was involved in mysterious negotiations with the enemy. But Ragusa was one of Napoleon's most trusted officers. "No one," the Emperor said, "inspires me with more confidence." Worried, Caulaincourt hustled Ragusa into a carriage and carried him on to Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced...
...long-lost memoirs,* Caulaincourt cleared up a major Napoleonic mystery with his account of Ragusa's treachery, clarified another with his account of Napoleon's attempted suicide a week later. Last year the first volume of this extraordinary document was offered U. S. readers under the title With Napoleon in Russia. Last week the second and concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected...
According to Caulaincourt, the Empire ended with Ragusa's treachery; what followed were the convulsions of its death-agony. Another addition to the 40,000 books about Napoleon, Author Aubry's St. Helena, also published last week, carries the story of Napoleon's personal decline to its miserable conclusion. An exhaustive record of the Emperor's last six years, St. Helena is a superb piece of composition that remains interesting through its 500 pages. Beginning with Waterloo, it clips along like a good melodrama through Napoleon's flight, his success in winning the friendship...