Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases
Emmanuel -Augustin - Dieudonné -Joseph de Las Cases (* June 21, 1766 at Schloss Las Cases at Revel ( Haute- Garonne), † May 15 1842 in Passy -sur -Seine, Seine- et- Marne) was a French naval officer and statesman under Napoleon. He followed the latter in his second abdication volunteer for 18 months in captivity on St. Helena and became world famous with the publication of his diaries from this period.
Life
The son of a not very rich, noble family from the country, but which has been introduced in his youth at the court, the path of Emmanuel de Las Cases seemed clearly defined: he joined with eleven years in the École Militaire of Vendôme and 1780 in the École Militaire one from Paris, where he was prepared for a career as an officer in the Navy. He took on the French side in the last two years of the American War of Independence and in part in the siege of Gibraltar in 1782 by French warships. From 1784 to 1789 he remained in North American waters and led there by various maritime operations. At the time of the French Revolution, he eventually served as a lieutenant in the Navy.
After the outbreak of the Revolution he emigrated in 1791, like many other noble families, to Worms and Koblenz from 1792 and made the campaign against revolutionary France. In the same year he fled to England, where he played his income as a private tutor. The loss of the family fortune by the Revolution had overthrown him in very poor conditions. Being under the pseudonym Le Sage appearing Atlas historique, chronologique, géographique et généalogique (Paris 1803-1804 ), edited and augmented by German Alexander von shower and Joshua Eyselein (Karlsruhe 1826-1827 ), turned away these personal grievances.
By the Peace of Amiens and the amnesty for exiled French by the First Consul Las Cases 1802 could return to France. He settled in Paris, then as a bookseller down. However, his situation was not straightforward as emigre French nobleman object and its unchanged intercession to the monarchy. The advice of former comrades to join the imperial court he refused. He returned to the army and directed by his good performances as well as his acquaintance with Joséphine ( who wanted to make it personal to the Chapeau Rouge ) and the Navy Minister Denis Decrès the attention of Napoleon himself. 1808 Las Cases was the Empire Baron and 1809 appointed Chambellan and Requetenmeister in the marine section of the State Council. Since that time, he was entrusted with various missions, including the inspection of prisons, hospitals, etc..
In the first invasion of the allies in 1814 he commanded the 10th Legion of 1789 established the National Guard, which suffered huge losses in the fighting around Paris. After Napoleon's first abdication, he went to England for a short time, but resigned after his return from Elba back into the Council of State.
After Napoleon's second abdication he requested from the same permission, together with his eldest son, Emmanuel Pons de Las Cases to be able to follow him to St. Helena. He made it back his wife and youngest child in France. At St. Helena Napoleon dictated to him a part of his Mémoires. Las Cases was Napoleon because of his knowledge of English as a mediator between him and the British.
Since Las Cases but anknüpfte clandestine connections with Europe, he was separated on November 27, 1816 together with his son of Napoleon and returned after a brief, involuntary stay at the Cape of Good Hope to Europe, where, between 1817 and 1821 in Austria Frankfurt a M, and finally lived in Belgium. In 1821 he returned to France.
His efforts to persuade the monarch of the Aachen Congress to ease the lot of Napoleon, were unsuccessful. After his death, he published the famous Mémorial de Sainte -Hélène (Paris 1821-1823, 8 vols ), to which Barry O'Mearas Napoleon in exile is the continuation. A refutation of the Las Cases hard impugned commander of St. Helena, Hudson Lowe, prompted Las Cases to travel to London to demand the same of personal satisfaction, but did show that Las Cases immediate expulsion. After the July Revolution Las Cases occurred from 1831 to 1843 twice as MP for St- Denis in the chamber, where he took his seat on the extreme left.
On May 15, 1842 Las Cases died at his home in Passy -sur -Seine and was buried in the Cimetière de Passy.
Bibliography
- Atlas historique, chronologique, géographique et généalogique (Paris 1803-1804, German processed and expanded by shower and Eyselein, Karlsruhe 1826-1827 )
- Atlas historique, généalogique, chronologique et Geographical location: Avec des augmentations par [ François ] J [ oseph Ferdinand ] Marchal de Bruxelles, et de nombreuses améliorations par une société de gens de lettres de savans et / De A. Le Sage [ di
Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné
] (Brussels, 1827) - Historical- genealogical- geographical atlas of Le Sage Graf Las Cases in three and Dreisig About overviews / from the French of the latest in Ed 's Dt. speak. and with two polit geographer. Uebers. presumably by Alexander von shower, Großherzogl. Baden Ministerialrath in the Dpt. the auswärt. Affairs ( Karlsruhe, 1825-1831 )
- Mémoires de F AD, comte de Las Cases (Brussels, 1818)
- Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, ou se trouve journal ou consigne, jour par jour, ce dit et fait qu'a Napoléon dix- huit mois durant (5 vols, London and Paris, 1823)
- Memoirs of Sanct - Helena, or diary, in which everything that Napoleon has spoken and done in the space of eighteen months recorded, day by day. From the Count of Las Cases. Translated from the French. Stuttgart; Tübingen: Cotta, 1823-1826.
- Suite au mémorial de Sainte Hélène, ou observations critiques, etc. (2 vols, Paris, 1824), published anonymously, but it is known that this was written by cricket and Musset - Pathay.