El monstruo de Santa Elena

No one has ever been held in a prison as secure, as remote and as impregnable as the one Napoleon Bonaparte inhabits after his defeat at Waterloo. Everyone knows what has happened. Those around him, fed up with his endless ambition and successive disasters, have decided to treat him for what he really is: an evil genius. The place where he is locked up is called Santa Elena, an islet thousands of kilometers from the nearest coast, infested with rats and guarded by the British army. In the spring of 1819, François-René de Chateaubriand and his mistress, Delphine Sabran, set sail for this lost island in the middle of the ocean. The great writer of his time and the Marquise de Custine want to test their love as the most famous couples in history, like Antony and Cleopatra, like Romeo and Juliet, overcoming two enormous obstacles: a great distance and a great adversary. After months of sailing, could there be a more fearsome enemy for these two sons of the French aristocracy? Following their encounter with the emperor who wreaked havoc across Europe, Chauteabriand and Delphine are terrified to discover that monsters can have many faces.