THE FONDATION NAPOLEON

The Fondation Napoléon is a registered charity committed to the encouragement of
the study of and interest in the history of the First and Second Empires,
and the preservation of Napoleonic heritage.

THE RESEARCH GRANTS

Previous winners

2010

•  Bonald homme politique : de la métaphysique à l´action Une étude sur l´œuvre parlementaire de Bonald et sa place dans la vie politique française de la veille de la Révolution à la Monarchie de Juillet, by Flavien Alexandre Bertran de Balanda
•  Marguerite Gérard et la peinture de genre en France de la fin des années 1770 aux années 1820, by Carole Blumenfeld
•  La politique étrangère du Royaume de Naples dans le système impérial napoléonien. Les dernières années du Royaume (1813-1814), by Nicoletta Marini d´Armenia
•  Les correspondants de la Banque de France (1800-1820). Etude sur l´activité de l´institut d´émission en province et à l´étranger au début du XIXe siècle, by Emmanuel Prunaux
•  Les chasses des souverains en France 1804-1830, by Charles-Eloi Vial
•  Le métissage architectural et ornemental du château d´Abbadia à Hendaye, by Viviane Delpech
•  Le patrimoine architectural et urbanistique du Mexique sous le Second Empire. 1864-1867 : les projets d´un empereur, by Nizza Santiago

2009

•  Elites et notabilités dans les départements méditerranéens sous le Consulat et l'Empire, by Adeline Beaurepaire-Hernandez
•  Le régiment impérial « Alexandre ». Les Espagnols dans l'armée de Napoléon Ier, by Margarita Cifuentes-Cuencas
•  Fibre d'Empire. Culture du coton à l'époque napoléonienne, by Joseph Horan
•  D'un bicentenaire à l'autre : les images de Napoléon Bonaparte 1969-2009, by Emile Kern
•  Les Parisiens et la politique sous Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (1850-1870): des barricades aux urnes, by Vincent Huet
•  Les appartements des chasses au château de Fontainebleau, étude architecturale mobilière et décorative, by Nicolas Personne
•  Le patrimoine napoléonien à Ajaccio (1800-1969), by Charles Renucci

2008

•  The French and the Archaeology of the Kingdom of Naples during the decennio francese (1806-1815): the example of ancient ceramic discoveries, by Florence Le Bars
•  The 'députés' of the Corps Législatif during the Consulate and the Empire 1799-1815, by Fabien Menant
•  Operational military intelligence during the Consulate and the Empire (1799-1805), by Michel Roucaud
•  The 'maison du prince-président' and the 'maison de l'empereur' 1848-1870, by Xavier Mauduit
•  Genre painting in France during the Second Empire and the initial years of the Third Republic (1852-1878), Michaël Vottero
•  Adolphe Niel (1802-1869). A Maréchal de France and his struggle against the illusion of a 'victorious' France, by Stéphane Faudais
•  The Abbatuccis: a Corsican political and military family in the wake of the Bonapartes (1750-1880), by Raphaël Lahlou

2007

•  The forgotten Napoleonic code: the Code Militaire , by Eman Vovsi (First Empire)
•  Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855): the artist and his times , by Cyril Lecosse (First Empire)
•  Britain and French Emigration: joint projects for a restoration of the monarchy in France (1793-1814), by Eléonore Pahlavi (First Empire)
•  Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin , by Bernd Pappe (First Empire)
•  A municipality during the First Empire: Lyon, 1805-1815, by Jean-Philippe Rey (First Empire)
•   The First Consul's participation in the preparatory work for the Code Civil, by Leïla Saada (First Empire)
•   Mellerio/Meller, the history of a Parisian jewellers in the 19th century, by Marie-Emilie Vaxelaire (Second Empire)

2006

•   The Pope’s apartment at the Château de Fontainebleau: a study of the architecture and the furniture, by Arnaud Denis (First Empire)
• The sovereign’s religious service and his religious personnel in France during the Empire and the Restoration (1804-1830), by Rémy Hême de la Cotte (First Empire)
• Frenchmen in Poland (1806-1808). A two-year relationship of liberation and occupation, by Benoît Roger
• The relationship between stage costumes and clothing fashions during the First Empire (Opéra, Comédie Française), by Chantal Serène (First Empire)
• The Beurdeley dynasty, collectors, merchants and manufacturers of 19th-century fine furnishings, by Camille Mestdagh (Second Empire)
• Théodore and Albert Ballu, architects, by Flavie Seznec de Montgolfier (Second Empire)

2005

•  Jean-Antoine Laurent (1763-1832), painter (troubadour), by Christina Egli (First Empire)
• Art criticism during the Consulate and the First Empire by Irène Perret (First Empire)
• Foreign prisoners of war in north-eastern France (1803-1815), , by David Rouanet (First Empire)
• The society of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris during the 19th century: prosopography of a fervent Catholic elite, by Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée (Second Empire)
• The Emir Abd el-Kader,Islam and France, by Ahmed Bouyerdene (Second Empire)
• The Bellangé family, furniture- and cabinet-makers, by Sylvain Cordier (First and Second Empire)

2003

• The sénat conservateur of An VIII, a second, constituent assembly (First Empire), by Clémence Zacharie-Tchakarian
• Saragossa during the French occupation after the sieges of the Peninsula War 1809-1813 (First Empire), by Anne-Sophie Galofaro-Darmagnac
• Pierre-Victor Galland (1822-1892), painter and decorator (Second Empire), by Jeremy Cerrano
• The Quay d'Orsay and the diplomats in Second Empire foreign policy (Second Empire), by Yves Bruley
• The life and work of Auguste Couderc (1789-1873), history painter (First - Second Empire), by Joanna Walkowska
• The Arc de Triomphe, the construction and appropriation of a national monument 1806-1945, (First - Second Empire), by Isabelle Rouge-Ducos
  

2002

• Money in circulation during the Napoleonic period, by Stéphane Desrousseaux
• Conscripts from the Léman and Mont-Blanc regions and the Grande Armée (1805-1814), by Sylvain Sick
• Louis Madelin (1871-1956): an academic alternative to History, by Johan Ranger
• A history of French art from the Directory to the Restoration. The role of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833), by Medhi Korchane
• The nobility of the 1st Empire. Noble identity reinvented, by Anne-Sandrine de Luca
• The Château de Saint-Cloud: architecture, decoration and furnishings (1658-1870), by Michaël Decrossas
  

2001

• Les officiers de la Grande Armée dans les mouvements nationaux et libéraux (The officers of the Grande Armée in French nationalist and liberal movements), by Walter Bruyère-Ostells
• La centralisation napoléonienne en Lozère sous le Consulat et l'Empire, (Napoleonic centralisation in the Lozère during the Consulate and the First Empire), by Jean-François Deloustal
• Guérilla et contre-guérilla en Espagne (1808-1814) (Guerrilla and Counter-Guerilla in Spain, 1808-1814), by Jean-Marc Lafon
• Gérard, peintre d'histoire (Gérard, History painter), by Elodie Lerner
• Les fils Jacob (1796-1847) (The Jacob sons, 1796-1847), by Jérôme Merceron
• L'Académie Impériale de Médecine sous le Second Empire (The Académie Impériale de Médecine during the Second Empire), by Emmanuelle Papot

2000

• David CHANTERANNE : Frédéric Masson (1847-1923). A life of Bonapartism in the service of Napoleon
• Marie DINELLI-GRAZIANI : A great collector : Cardinal Fesch. The paintings collection
• Philippe ROY : Permanent military hospitals in France during the First Empire (1804-1814)
• Pierre-Olivier DOUPHIS : Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), draughtsman
• Juliette GLIKMAN : Imperial symbolism and the representation of history during the Second Empire.A contribution to the study of the foundations of the regime

1999

• Natalya Goutina : General Gazan
• David Chaillou : Politics on stage: Historical study of the oeuvres de circonstances performed at the Opéra de Paris from 1810 - 1815
• Christine Dotal : Jean-Joseph Perraud (1819-1876) and Neoclassical sculpture during the Second Empire

1998

• Laurence Chatel de Brancion : Cambacérès
• Laetitia de Witt : The Prince Victor Napoléon

1997

• François-Joël Balland : Ramel, Minister of Finance (First Empire)
• Florence Puech : Chislehurst: the imperial family in exile (end of September 1870 to 1881) (Second Empire)

1996

• José Olcina : Public opinion in Belgium during the period 1809 to 1816 (First Empire)
• Karine Huguenaud : The art policy of the Second Empire (Second Empire)

1995

• Gérard FENECH : Pierre Magne, Minister of Finance under the Second Empire, doctoral thesis, supervised by Mr. François Monnier, (EPHE)
• Laurence WODEY-COUTURAUD : The Orders of Merit granted to Officers, 1802-1840, doctoral thesis, supervised by professeur Jean Tulard, University of Paris IV

1994

• Nathalie PETITEAU : The Destiny of a noble created during the First Empire: General Count Pajol doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Brelot, Paris
• Laurence GREGOIRE : Free-masonry under the Second Empire, doctoral thesis, supervised by professeur Jean Tulard, University of Paris IV
• Claude-Georges VIGOUREUX : Charlemagne-Emile de Maupas (1818-1888), doctoral thesis, supervised by professeur Jean Tulard, University of Paris IV

1993

• Eric ANCEAU : Deputies of the Second Empire, thesis in history, supervised by Jean Tulard, University of Paris IV
• Claire LEJEUNE : The Abbot de Pradt (1759-1837), Masters thesis in history, supervised by Jean Tulard, University of Paris IV

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