Memorial de Sainte-Helène (English)

Japanese: 《Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène》(英語表記)MemorialdeSainteHelene
Memorial de Sainte-Helène (English)

…In December 1816, he was exiled by Governor Hudson Lowe of St. Helena on suspicion of conspiracy, and lived in Brussels. After the death of Napoleon in 1821, he returned to France. He compiled the Emperor's dictation and his diary, which he had begun on the ship to St. Helena and continued on the island, and published his own Memoirs in 1818. He then published eight volumes of the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène (1823), with a preface dated 1822. This work is said to be the Gospel of the Napoleonic legend, and is a masterpiece of St. Helenian literature. It clearly conveys Napoleon's identification of the Empire with the Revolution, the legitimacy of the transition from the Revolution to the Empire, and his liberal intentions, and achieved Napoleon's political goal of transforming from a dictator to a savior. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Mémorial de Saint-Hélène" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…16年12月セント・ヘレナ島総督ハドソン・ローに陰謀の嫌疑を受けて追放され,ブリュッセルに居住し,21年ナポレオンが死ぬとフランスに帰った。セント・ヘレナ島に行く艦上で開始し,島でも続けた皇帝の口述,自分の日記を整理して18年には自分の《回想録》を出し,ついで22年の序文を付した《セント・ヘレナの回想Mémorial de Sainte‐Hélène》8巻(1823)を出版した。この著はナポレオン伝説の〈福音書〉とまで言われ,〈セント・ヘレナ文学〉の傑作で,ナポレオンの帝政と革命の同一化,革命から帝政への推移の正当性,自由主義という意図をよく伝えており,ナポレオンの独裁者から救世主への変貌という政治的目的を達成した。…

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