> The entire run of the Moniteur Universel can be consulted online via the French National Library, including the relevant daily editions from March 1-20, 1815. They do not contain the titles that Dumas uses. In fact, as the journal of record, the Moniteur mainly published decrees, statutes and ordinances – nothing quite as lurid as the headlines quoted by Dumas.
> In Les Cent-Jours: Légende et réalité (1983), French historian George Blond after extensive research is forced to conclude that “although the Emperor was insulted and dismissed as an adventurer or evildoer in some newspaper commentaries, this legendary series of newspaper headlines never did exist.”
Alexandre Dumas reprend ces affirmations dans Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, dont le début se passe en 1815, peu avant les Cent-Jours :
> celui que vous appelez à Paris l’ogre de Corse, qui s’appelle encore l’usurpateur à Nevers, s’appelle déjà Bonaparte à Lyon, et l’Empereur à Grenoble
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> The entire run of the Moniteur Universel can be consulted online via the French National Library, including the relevant daily editions from March 1-20, 1815. They do not contain the titles that Dumas uses. In fact, as the journal of record, the Moniteur mainly published decrees, statutes and ordinances – nothing quite as lurid as the headlines quoted by Dumas.
> In Les Cent-Jours: Légende et réalité (1983), French historian George Blond after extensive research is forced to conclude that “although the Emperor was insulted and dismissed as an adventurer or evildoer in some newspaper commentaries, this legendary series of newspaper headlines never did exist.”
Alexandre Dumas reprend ces affirmations dans Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, dont le début se passe en 1815, peu avant les Cent-Jours :
> celui que vous appelez à Paris l’ogre de Corse, qui s’appelle encore l’usurpateur à Nevers, s’appelle déjà Bonaparte à Lyon, et l’Empereur à Grenoble