Ivor Guest: By Way of an Introduction

Abstract

century have provided all subsequent writers with a marvellous resource, combining meticulous scholarship with a sense of the period that goes far beyond mere research and documentation, taking the reader on a voyage of the imagination as vivid as it is fascinating that golden past lives again in his pages. Ivor's own journey began almost by accident. Born in Chislehurst, he was intrigued by the town's association with the exiled Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie and their son, the tragic Prince Imperial. Thus his first book, Napoleon III in England. And thus, as his researches progressed, the decision of an already confirmed balletomane to learn more about the ballet of the Paris