Background
Emmanuel was born on June 21, 1766 at the castle of Las Cases near Revel in Languedoc.
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Emmanuel was born on June 21, 1766 at the castle of Las Cases near Revel in Languedoc.
Emmanuel was educated at the military schools of Vendome and Paris; he entered the navy and took part in various engagements of the years 1781- 1782.
The outbreak of the Revolution in 1789 caused him to " emigrate, " and he spent some years in Germany and England, sharing in the disastrous Quiberon expedition (1795).
He was one of the few survivors and returned to London, where he lived in poverty. He returned to France during the Consulate with other royalists who rallied to the side of Napoleon, and stated afterwards to the emperor that he was " conquered by his glory. " Not until 1810 did he receive much notice from Napoleon, who then made him a chamberlain and created him a count of the empire (he was marquis by hereditary right).
After the first abdication of the emperor (nth of April 1814), Las Cases retired to England, but returned to serve Napoleon during the Hundred Days.
He withdrew with the ex-emperor and a few other trusty followers to Rochefort; and it was Las Cases who first proposed and strongly urged the emperor to throw himself on the generosity of the British nation.
Las Cases made the first overtures to Captain Maitland of H. M. S. " Belle- rophon " and received a guarded reply, the nature of which he afterwards misrepresented.
In some cases he misstated facts and even fabricated documents.
However that may be, he infringed the British regulations in such a way as to lead to his expulsion by the governor, Sir Hudson Lowe (November, 1816).
He resided at Brussels; but, gaining permission to come to Paris after the death of Napoleon, he took up his residence there, published the Memorial, and soon gained an enormous sum from it.
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