RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS CAPTIVITY ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA

Sinopsis de RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, DURING THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS CAPTIVITY ON THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA

Lucia Elizabeth Balcombe was born in 1802 as the second child of William and Jane Balcombe, née Cranston. Her father was Superintendent of Public Sales for the East India Company. Balcombe and her sister Jane, two years her senior, were educated in England and there taught the French language. In 1814, the sisters returned to Saint Helena and resided with their parents and two younger brothers in a cottage called the Briars.