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Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marquis de Las Cases (1766–1842)
Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marquis de (läs-käz). A French writer; born near Revel, 1766; died on May 15, 1842. He was one of the emigrant nobles of 1791, but returned to France in 1799, and set up in Paris as a bookseller. Under the pseudonym “Le Sage” he compiled an ‘Atlas, Historical, Geographical, Chronological, and Genealogical’ (1803–4), which gained him high office from Napoleon. He accompanied the latter to St. Helena, and began to take down his ‘Memoirs’ from dictation; but before they were completed, Las Cases’s secret correspondence with Napoleon’s friends outside was discovered, and he had to quit his master’s service. The remainder of the ‘Memoirs’ is contained in O’Meara’s ‘Napoleon in Exile.’ After Napoleon’s death, Las Cases published ‘Memorial of St. Helena’ (8 vols., 1821–23).