ePub Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba; being a journal of occurrences in 1814-1815 by Neil Campbell; Archibald Neil Campbell Maclachlan in History

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INTRODUCTION WHEN Dickens; in the winter of 1859; essayed the little task of making a picturesque story; he requested Carlyle to lend him same books which the Sage of CheIsea had used in the production of his Fench; revolution. Carlyle; making more noise in his silence-room than the rest of the world put together; replied with grim humour by despatching to Gads Hill two cartloads of authorities. T...