Napoleon’s Desk – St Helena to Sydney, a Story worth a Smile
That someone in the Antipodes would end up sitting at, and using the same desk as he did would have given deposed French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte great cause to smile.
Betsy Balcombe
Napoleon Bonaparte – Notable Australian Connections
France’s Emperor Napoleon’s ambitions for the South Pacific were realized in 1800 when Nicolas-Thomas Baudin (1754-1803) proposed an expedition to Australia