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NAPOLEON I , LENTZ Thierry (ed.), Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte : Tome 12 - La campagne de Russie 1812 (in French)
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© Fayard
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Description:
Volume twelve of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte covers the single tragic year of 1812. As Napoleon I crossed into Russia territory in June 1812, no-one envisaged anything but success for the Russian campaign. Yet as they went deeper into Russia - with governing the empire becoming harder and harder by the mile - Napoleon and his multinational but ultimately divided army found their campaign bogged down by the Russian tactics and resolve. In December, the once imperious Grande Armée finally returned home, decimated and with its morale in ruins. The defeat, a turning point in European history, sent shockwaves across the continent. Napoleon I would subsequently lose his army and his empire, whilst Alexander I would go on to become the hero of Russia's Patriotic War and, two years later, play a deciding role in the discussions at the Congress of Vienna.
The Fondation Napoléon is most grateful to Patrick de Pauw for his assistance in the completion of this volume.
The Fondation Napoléon is supported in this unprecendented adventure of historic proportions by the Archives de France, the Fondation La Poste and more than one hundred project volunteers.
Summary
- Preface, by Marie Pierre Rey, Professor at the Université Paris I, Director of the CRHS
- Introduction, by Thierry Lentz, Director of the Fondation Napoléon
- Correspondence: 2 551 annotated letters
- List of letters in private collections: contents unknown
- Studies
-- The Grande Armée of 1812, Organisation at the start of the campaign, by F. Houdecek
-- Organisation of the Russian army (1810-1812), by V. Bezotosnyi
- Annexes
-- Coded correspondence: the letters to Maret in 1812
-- Places mentioned in the correspondence and their modern-day equivalents
-- Detailed timeline, by I. Delage
-- Table of measures and currencies
-- Maps
----- Russian campaign (23 June - 16 August)
----- Russian campaign - advance on Moscow (mid-August - October 1812)
----- The Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812)
----- The city of Moscow (September 1812)
----- Russian campaign - the retreat (October - December 1812)
----- Military operations in Spain (January - November 1812)
To celebrate the release, Napoleon.org has published a number of translated documents:
- Marie-Pierre Rey's preface
- A project update from François Houdecek, project manager for the publication of the General Correspondence of Napoleon Bonaparte
Place and publisher: Paris: Fayard/Fondation Napoléon
Date of publication: 2012
Number of pages: 1530
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Description: From the publishers:
In The Barbed Crown, the sixth tale of rogue and adventurer Ethan Gage by William Dietrich, our hero returns to Paris and London. Against a background of imperial pomp and the gathering clouds of war, Gage plots revenge on Napoleon Bonaparte for the kidnap of his son. Paris, the “City of Lights,” shines – but alongside its splendor is great squalor. Heroic patriotism rubs against mean ambition, while grand strategy and back-alley conspiracy are never far apart. While Ethan spies on the French court, his wife, Astiza, works to sabotage Napoleon's coronation using the Crown of Thorns, a legendary relic said to have come from the Crucifixion itself. But when Napoleon is crowned nonetheless, they flee to England.
At Walmer Castle on the English coast, Gage joins a daring campaign by Smith, Fulton, rocket inventor William Congreve and smuggler Tom Johnstone to halt Napoleon's intended invasion of England – a campaign which leads Ethan to take a role in the Battle of Trafalgar itself...
Place and publisher: Harper
Date of publication: 2013
Number of pages: 373
Description:
From the publishers:
In the wake of French expansion around 1800, large areas were made Départements of the Republic. These areas became increasingly influenced by French revolutionary reforms. This volume examines the characteristics of Napoleonic hegemony in these areas, from conquest to the integration, considering these central aspects: land and politics; society and war; economics and the environment; representation and legacy. The geographic spectrum extends from the Rhineland to Switzerland, Piedmont, Liguria and Rome and Southern Italy.
Contents:
GUIDO BRAUN, GABRIELE B. CLEMENS,
LUTZ KLINKHAMMER, ALEXANDER KOLLERNapoleonische Expansionspolitik: zu den ambivalenten Auswirkungen von Eroberung und Integration p.1
STUART WOOLF Napoleon: politics of integration? p. 18
THIERRY LENTZ Neue Ideologie und grundlegende Konstanten in der europäischen
Diplomatie des Napoleonischen Zeitalters p. 27
MICHAEL BROERS Transformation and Discontinuity from the old order to
the modern state in the Piedmontese and Ligurian Départments
of Napoleonic Italy p . 41
JOHN A. DAVIS Napoleon and Naples: the Imperial Project in Mediterranean
Perspectives p. 53
GABRIELE B. CLEMENS Napoleonische Transformationen der Nachbarstaaten. Die rheinischen Départements und die Schweiz p. 63
MASSIMO CATTANEO Das napoleonische Rom (1809–1814). Konsensstrategien und
Verweigerungshaltung p. 83
ALEXANDER GRAB
Conscription and Desertion in France and Italy under Napoleon p. 102
LUTZ KLINKHAMMER Kontrolle und Identität. Die Grenzen der Freiheit im Rheinland und in Piemont unter französischer Herrschaft p. 120
VOLKER SELLIN Der napoleonische Staatskult p. 138
HANS-PETER ULLMAN Territoriales Finanzwesen, französische Raubwirtschaft und
napoleonisches Finanzsystem im linksrheinischen Deutschland p. 160
WOLFRAM SIEMANN Der Umgang mit Umwelt und Natur in der napoleonischen Ära p. 172
HEINZ-GERHARD HAUPT Zur Reichweite napoleonischer Gewerbepolitik. Die Zünfte in den annektierten Gebieten p. 193
COSTANZA D'ELIA
Napoleonische Herrschaft in Bild und Text p. 205
ROLF REICHARDT
Napoleon der „Weltfresser“? Die europäische Karriere eines anti-revolutionären Bildmotivs p. 241
LUIGI MASCILLI MIGLIORINI
Eine Geschichte der zweiten Dimension. An den Wurzeln der Napoleon-Biographie p. 271
Place and publisher: Berlin: De Gruyter
Date of publication: 2013
Number of pages: 286
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