29 DECEMBER 1928, Page 25

Students of Napoleon will find that Mr. John Theodore Tussaud's

The Chosen Four (Cape, 7s. 6d.) fills, succinctly and interestingly, a few minor gaps in their knowledge. Mr. Tussaud recounts the early careers of Charles Tristan Montholon, Henri Gratien Bertrand, Gaspard Gourgaud, and Emmanuel de Las Casas. He then relates how they became acquainted with their great leader, and how, when at last Napoleon's star declined, they still remained loyal to him and followed him into captivity at Elba. The introduction describes the association of Mr. Tussaud's own forbears with friends of Napoleon, while several of the illustrations are from photographs of Napoleonic relics destroyed by the fire at Madame Tussaud's Exhibition in 1925.

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