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The Fondation Napoléon has selected some key web sites for those interested in the First and Second Empires.
For a larger selection of sites, consult the Napoleonic Directory.
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The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
Description : This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly. The originals are located in the Charles Deering McCormick of Special Collections in the Deering Library at Northwestern University.
Type : History
Language : English
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Nachrichtendienst für HistorikerInnen
Description : This excellent website provides, as the title suggests, an 'Information service for historians'. Daily for German, every three or four days for English and French, it sends email lists of articles of historical interest found in the national and local online newspapers in Germany, France and the English speaking world.
Type : History
Language : German, French, English
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Westpoint Military Academy Napoleonic Atlas
Description : 70 on-line military maps showing all the major Napoleonic battles.
Type : Militaria
Language : English
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Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide
Description : One of the largest collections of links to Napoleonic sites available on the web
History.
Type : History
Language : English
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The Napoleon Series
Description : An excellent English language site on Napoleon for all things military - lots of books reviews, articles, battle maps, documents in translation, etc.
Type : History
Language : English
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Library of Congress
Description : One of the largest libraries in the world. If you don't find the bibliographical references here, try COPAC - also on this page.
Type : Libraries
Language : English
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COPAC
Description : Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland, this database is an excellent complement to the Library of Congress.
Type : Libraries
Language : English
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Literature on the Age of Napoleon
Description : Napoleonic biographies primarily focused on Napoleonic fiction, poetry, drama, essays and films, also includes a Bibliography of Napoleonic Memoirs (Female and Male), a Bibliography of Napoleonic Biographies, and a Bibliography of Napoleonic Essays, History & Memoirs (essentially e-texts).
Type : Databases
Language : English
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Napoleonica
Description : Fondation Napoléon site putting at the public's disposal Napoleonic primary documents which are either inaccessible, previously unpublished or of special merit. The collection currently includes: a powerful search engine, 3660 of the 'imprimés' or working papers of the Napoleonic Conseil d'Etat (1800-1815), the correspondence of Napoleon with Bigot de Préameneu (revealing Napoleon's ecclesiastical policy), 245 drawings by Christophe-Frédéric Houdetot (gallery of thumbnail sketches of the Conseillers d'Etat), and all the documents relative to the proclamation of empire in 1804.
Type : Databases
Language : French
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