Slippery Prince
Graham Robb
- Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley
Louisiana State, 392 pp, £38.50, December 2000, ISBN 0 8071 2624 1 - The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price
Cambridge, 507 pp, £55.00, January 2002, ISBN 0 521 80830 8
On the morning of 5 August 1840, a large pleasure boat chartered by a Frenchman was under steam at London Bridge. The owners of the Edinburgh Castle seem to have been remarkably incurious about the expedition. The day before, guns and ammunition, bundles of printed proclamations, a large amount of cash, sixty uniforms and several horses had been taken on board. The passengers wore civilian clothes but were obviously not embarking on a picnic.
You are not logged in
- If you have already registered then you can login here
- If you are a print subscriber using the site for the first time please register here
- If you are not yet a subscriber you can subscribe here
- If you are a member of a subscribing institution or university library please login here
- If you have an institutional print subscription without online access then you can find out about our institutional online subscriptions here
Vol. 25 No. 12 · 19 June 2003 » Graham Robb » Slippery Prince (print version)
pages 33-34 | 3169 words