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    on 8th Apr 2005


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    This is Betsy Balcombe's memoirs of life with Napoleon on St Helena. She was a precocious teenager and when Napoleon was exiled to St Helena in 1815, after Waterloo, he initially lived with the Balcombes in their bungalow. The resulting drama of having the world's most famous lodger is a wonderfu ...
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