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The Authors of Napoleon

 


 
Further information and greater detail on the literary movements of the First and the Second Empires:

Précis de littérature française du XIXe siècle, edited by Madeleine Ambrière, PUF, 1990.

Descotes Maurice, La Légende de Napoléon et les écrivains du XIXe siècle, Minard, 1967.

L.H. Lecomte, Napoléon et le monde dramatique, Daragon, 1912.

P. Martino, Le Roman réaliste sous le Second Empire, Slatkine, 1973, (re-edition.).

The texts mentioned in the course of this itinerary:

Today, many publishers produce these texts in paperback with prefaces, commentaries, and sometimes even critical essays. Hence, we only indicate here reference works, recent publications or specific studies.
 
BALZAC / La Comédie humaine, edited by P.G. Castex, Gallimard, «Pléiade» collection, 1976-1961, 12 vols.
Adieu, Le Livre de Poche, Les Classiques d'Aujourd'hui, 1995.
Gérard Gengembre, Balzac le Napoléon des Lettres, Découverte Gallimard, n°150, 1992.
 
CHATEAUBRIAND / Mémoires d'outre-tombe, critical edition by J.C. Berchet, Classiques Garnier, Bordas, 1989.
Mémoires d'outre-tombe, text of the original edition (1849), preface, notes and commentary by Pierre Clarac, Le Livre de Poche, 1995.
Sainte-Beuve, Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire sous l'Empire, Garnier, 1948, (réed.).
 
FLAUBERT / Oeuvres complètes, Editions Rencontre, critical edition by M. Nadeau, 1964-1965, 16 vols.
Oeuvres complètes, Club de l'Honnête Homme, critical edition by M. Bardèche, 1971-1976, 18 vols.
 
HUGO / Oeuvres poétiques, critical edition by P. Albouy, Gallimard, «Pléiade» collection, 1964-1974, 3 vols.
The only edition of complete works presently available is:
Oeuvres complètes, edited by J. Seebacher, with Guy Rosa, Laffont, Bouquins collection, 1985.
 
MICHELET / Oeuvres complètes, critical edition by P. Viallaneix, Flammarion, 1971, 14 vols.
 
ZOLA / Les Rougon-Macquart, critical edition by H. Mitterand, Gallimard, «Pléiade» collection, 1960-1967, 5 vols.
Les Rougon-Macquart, Laffont, Bouquins collection, 1991-1993, 5 vols. Critical edition presented and annotated by C.Becker, with G.Gourdin-Servenière and V. Lavielle.
Descotes Maurice, «Le personnage de Napoléon III dans les Rougon-Maquart», Archives des Lettres modernes, n°114, 1970.
«Le Second Empire vu et jugé par Zola», L'Information historique, XV, n°2, March-April 1953, p.50-57.


 

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