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Prologue Maingault - A ticket to America - July 1815 Defections and betrayals - Rochefort - Return of the Bourbons Perfidy of Maitland - Bellerophon - Farewell  Farewell at Rochefort  15 July 1815 - Napoleon goes on the Bellerophon  On board the Bellerophon Warden - The road to exile - August-September 1815 Northumberland - En route to St. Helena - The Lettres of Warden  Off Plymouth  Arrival at St. Helena O'Meara - Physician of the Empereur - October 1815 - May 1816 The Briars - First rivalries, first complaints - Letters to Finlaison Longwood - Piontkowski - Hudson Lowe - Restrictions - Declarations  The Briars, home of the Balcombe family O'Meara - Agent of the Governor - June-December 1816 Taunts of the doctor - Malcolm - The foreign commissioners - The Welle case Longwood budget - Letter of Remonstrance Sending away the servants and Piontkowski - The arrest of Las Cases  Napoleon dictating his memoirs to Las Cases O'Meara - Go it alone - January-October 1817 Albine de Montholon - The Cossack of Brienne - Disgrace of Gourgaud The bust of the king of Rome - Showdown between O'Meara and Hudson Lowe Lady Plampin - Speech ofBathurst - Observations  Prisonner at St. Helena  Baxter - The "false reports" - November1817 - July1818 Deteriorating of Napoleon's health - Breaking point between O'Meara and Lowe Departure of Gourgaud - Death of Cipriani - The "revelations" of Gourgaud The "false reports" of Baxter - Expelling O'Meara Verling - Medical attendance - August-December 1818 Gourgaud in London - Richelieu - The revanche of O'Meara Nicholls' Diary - Boys' affair - Holmes' affair The "ghastly" Napoleon - Low spirits at Longwood Stokoe - The unusual "patient" - January 1819 Nocturnal seizures - Trap against Stokoe - Complicity of admiral Plampin Cross-examination from Baxter - Resignation of Stokoe Foureau - A doctor named desire - February-September 1819 The choices of Cardinal Fesch - Resignation of Baxter - The beau Jackson Ricketts' visit to Napoleon - Departure of Montholon's family Longwood Gardens - Trial of Stokoe - Suspicious fires Antommarchi - Tourist at Longwood - October 1819 - October 1820 New companions for the exile - Influence of the Priests Easing the restrictions - Fire Exercises - Entente cordiale Letter to Liverpool - Visit to Doveton's Antommarchi - Doctor in spite of himself - November 1820 - March 1821 The pains of Napoleon - Antommarchi's absences Shortt's medical opinion - Resignation of Antommarchi - Prelude to the death Arnott - The last 40 days - April-May 1821 Diagnosis from Arnott - Dismissal of Antommarchi - Resignation of Lutyens Napoleon's will - The "coffee grounds" - Adverse treatments Death of Napoleon  5 May 1821 - Death of Napoleon at Longwood Shortt - One autopsy and many reports - May 1821 Autopsy of Napoleon - English official report - Report from Reade Shortt's controversy - Arnott's book - Henry's report Antommarchi's report - Critical notes from Rutledge Rutledge - Coffining and funerals - May 1821 Last tributes - Darroch's letter - Darling's memorandum Millington's report - The coffins - Rutledge's report What Napoleon died of? Burton - The Affair of the Mask - Years 1821-1830 The death mask - Returns to Europe - Burton's lawsuit Lowe's charges against O'Meara - Antommarchi's setbacks The work of Walter Scott - Rebuttal from Gourgaud Guillard - The return of Napoleon's ashes - Years 1830-1840 The July Monarchy - Death of Napoleon II - The sword of Austerlitz Fall of the Conservatives - Mission to St. Helena Exhumation of Napoleon - Funerals in Paris  15 October 1840 - Napoleon's remains leave St. Helena Epilogue |