Research: books, articles, archival sources, digital documents, related to Napoleon Ist, Napoleon III, the First Empire, the Second Empire, with the Digital LIbrary, e-review, online history journal, Napoleonica La Revue, the archival source material website napoleonica.org

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Napoleonica® is the Fondation Napoléon’s trademark raft of research tools designed those interested in the history of the First and Second Empires. It comprises a library open to the public (Paris, France) and a library of e-texts taken from books in the Fondation Napoléon’s collection, a web site offering digitalised primary source material, and an international scholarly online history journal.

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The digital library
This section is a digital library offering access to the digitised books from the Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre and documents in the widest sense of the term (books, articles, engravings, etc), either scanned or transcribed in their entirety and available on the web, which are related to the First or Second Empires or published on those periods (several thousand books and articles online!).

View the documents digitised by the Fondation Napoléon

The Bibliothèque M. Lapeyre Library
How to use the Fondation Napoléon's Bibliothèque Martial Lapeyre research library of books on the First and Second Empires.

Accessions

Online Catalogue

A web site offering digitalised primary source material, including: the papers of the Napoleonic Conseil d'Etat, the correspondance of Napoleon I with Bigot de Préameneu, Conseiller d’Etat and later Minister for Religion, the correspondance of Vivant Denon, director of the Musée Napoléon (in French).

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An international scholarly online history journal on First and Second Empire subjects: articles, bibliographies, book reviews, etc. now, on CAIRN.INFO, a French humanities e-journal aggregator database (free access)

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The Fondation Napoléon's publishing projects

	The General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte
	The Fondation’s publications

	The Fondation Napoléon Research Grants
	The Fondation Napoléon and its research partnerships
	Archives and libraries


Whether you are a beginner in Napoleonic history or a seasoned campaigner, this section offers you all you need to go further in your reading.

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