HISTORY PRIZES

The Fondation Napoléon History Prizes and Grand Prix

As part of its mission to encourage research and public interest in the history of the two empires, every year an independent jury composed of some of the best First and Second Empire historians awards in the name of the Fondation Napoléon three history prizes.

These prizes, each of 5,000 Euros, are awarded respectively to:

• a work in French on the history of France's First Empire
• a work in French on the history of France's Second Empire
• a work in a language which is not French on the history of France's First or Second Empires, or a literary or artistic work or action related to the history of France's First or Second Empires. In particular, this prize can be awarded to a historian, academic, writer, artist, curator or manager of a Napoleonic establishment "for their career".

Of these three prize-winners, the jury will then choose the overall winner, the “Grand Prix de la Fondation Napoléon”, awarding a further 5,000 Euros. The Jury may decide not to award a prize in a specific category.

Eligible works must have been published or performed for the first time between the 1st October in year ‘n minus one’ and 30th September in year ‘n’ (for example, in 2005, between 1st October 2004 and 30th September, 2005).

To compete for a History Prize, all you have to do is:

• For a book: send 15 copies of the work to the Fondation Napoléon (and NOT directly to the members of the jury) who will then send them on to the jury.
• For audio-visual or musical works: send in the same way fifteen copies of the work, with accompanying presentation dossier.
• For the complete rules (in French) click here.

History prize address:

Fondation Napoléon
148, bld Haussmann
75008 Paris

For further information about the History Prizes:
Thierry Lentz, email: lentz(at)napoleon(dot)org

The jury for the Fondation Napoléon History Prizes, Grands Prix and Research Grants

• President:
  V.-A. Masséna, Prince d’Essling
  President of the Fondation Napoléon
  
  
• Secretary general:
  Jean-Claude Lachnitt
  
  
• Members of the jury:
  Professor Jacques-Olivier Boudon
  Prince Gabriel de Broglie, Chancelier of the Institut, member of the Académie française
  Professor François Crouzet
  Jean Favier, of the Institut
  Professor Bruno Foucart
  Jacques Jourquin
  Dr Jean-François Lemaire
  Anne Muratori-Philip
  Jean-Marie Rouart, of the Académie française
  Professor Jean Tulard, of the Institut

 THE FONDATION NAPOLéON HISTORY PRIZES

THE 2008 HISTORY PRIZES

The Fondation Napoléon History Prizes 2008 for books on the two French empires were this year awarded to:

• First Empire Prize 2008
  Madeleine et Francis AMBRIERE:  Talma, ou l’histoire du théâtre
  Paris: Paris: éditions de Fallois
  
  
• Second Empire Prize 2008
  Alain DECAUX, de l’Académie Française: Coup d’état à l’Elysée
  Paris: éditions Perrin
  
  
• Prize for a book in a language other than French 2008
  Edgardo DONATI: La Toscana nell’impero napoleonico. Tomo I e II
  Florence: Polistampa
  
  

The winners of the Fondation Napoléon history prizes and research grants will receive Grand Champagne Napoléon Grand Millésime from the producer CH. & A. Prieur.

 Previous winners of the Fondation Napoléon History Prizes and Grands Prix