Emmanuel de Las Boxes

Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, count de Las Boxes (born the June 21st 1766 close to Revel in the Tarn, deceased the May 15th 1842 with the Passy-on-Seine) was one Historian French. Family name Las Boxes decides /laskaz/.

Biography

It was born with the castle from Mow Boxes close to Revel (Haute-Garonne) in the Languedoc. He was educated at the military academy of Vendôme, then with that of Paris; he enters the navy and takes part in several engagements in the years 1781 - 1782.

The French revolution of 1789 causes its emigration, and it spends several years in Germany and England, taking part in the disaster of the Expédition of Quiberon (1795). It is one of the rare survivors and turns over to London, where it lives in poverty.

It turns over in France during the Consulat with other royalists who rejoin Napoleon i, and who will make allégence with the Emperor later. Thus in 1810, it receives the title of chamberlain and Count d' Empire (he was marquis by heredity before). After the abdication of the emperor (April 11th 1814), it is withdrawn in England, but turns over to serve Napoleon during the Hundred Days.

After the Battle of Waterloo, remained faithful to Napoleon Bonaparte overcome, there accompanied it by the coasts of the Vendée to the island of Sainte-Hélène and shared its exile.

The rendering of the Emperor opens for Las Boxes the most notable part of its career. It follows with some others privileged the emperor to Rochefort; and it is Las Boxes which it first and rather strongly encouraged the emperor to go to the British nation. Las Cases made the first a proposal with the Capitaine Maitland of the '' Bellerophon '' and accepted a positive response.

Las Cases accompanies Napoleon with Sainte Helene and plays in an abstract way but very assiduement a role of private secretary, taking various notes of their conversations, which it will then give in order in his Mémorial of Holy Helene . It became famous for this work, writing with the Château of Sohan, devoted to the Emperor of which he was the only confidant during the exile.

This Mémorial (document moreover 2000 pages) remains the vector of the legend of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the testimony most complete and led on the end and the forfeiture of the Emperor.

“ the Memorial presents the best collection, not only real thoughts of Napoleon Bonaparte, but still of the opinions that he wanted to make pass for such ”, Walter Scott said

The Mémorial must be read with great attention, because the compiler did not have scruple there to insert its own thoughts and to adapt those of Napoleon. In certain cases, one finds there facts not proven and documents entirely manufactured.

The information source is much less relevant and veracious that of the Baron Gourgaud in his Journal . Hated by Montholon and Gourgaud, Las Boxes seems to have had several times the desire to leave the island since he thought of having joined together literary material enough to write his book. Thus, he violated the British payments deliberately in order to be expelled by the governor Hudson Lowe (November 1816). He was sent initially to the Cape of Good Hope and from there in Europe.

Its entry in France at the beginning was not authorized by the government of Louis XVIII. It resided at Brussels; but, it obtains the permission to come to Paris after death from Napoleon, where it takes his residence and publishes the Mémorial . It gains soon an enormous richness and dies of it in 1842 with Passy.

Emmanuel de Las Boxes is the author of a monumental historic atlas in great folio (55 X 34 cm), published on several occasions between 1804 and approximately 1845 (Lalanne, Renier and Al, universal portable Biographie, Paris, Garnier, 1861).

A statue was set up to him with Lavaur, beside the church.

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