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"An exposition of some of the transactions, that have taken place at St-Helena, since the appointment of Sir Hudson Lowe as governor of that island ; in answer to an anonymous pamphlet entitled "Facts illustrative of the treatment of Napoleon Bonaparte", & corroborated by various official documents, correspondence": a reader's note
Author : LHEUREUX-PRÉVOT Chantal
Key-words : Meara, Hook, St, Helena, Napoleon, exile, death, Mauritius, Lowe, Hudson

"Bleeding ulcer": the commencement and long-term consequences of guerilla warfare in Iberia
Author : BARRY Don

"Experience" of music in France during the Napoleonic period: second atelier de la Fondation Napoléon (24 March 2009)
Author : DELAGE Irène
Key-words : atelier, music, Païsiello, opera, Hortense, Napoleon, sacre, coronation, religion, mass, buffa,

"Maintaining the contest with Buonaparte": Britain in 1809
Author : HICKS Peter
Revue : Zusammenfassung der Beiträge zum Napoleon Symposium "Feldzug 1809"
Year : 2009
Pages : 80-87
Key-words : Napoleon, Perceval, Bonaparte, George, jubilee, Britain, 1809, Wellington, industry, poor, society

"Napoleon, Feldherr, Kaiser und Genie": images from the exhibition
Author : HUGUENAUD Karine
Key-words : Schallaburg, Napoleon, Austria, Essling, Aspern, Wagram, Marie-Louise, divorce, campaign, 1809, bicentenary

"Romances mises en musique par S[a] M[ajesté] L[a] R[eine] H[ortense]": a reader's note
Author : LHEUREUX-PRÉVOT Chantal
Key-words : Romances, Partant, Syrie, Dunois, Beau, Beauharnais, Hortense, Laborde, Drouet, Josephine

"Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl XIV Johan, Czar Alexander"
Author : ALEJO Alfonso A.
Key-words : Bernadotte, Napoleon, Bonaparte, Alexander, Russia, Czar, tsar, empire, Sweden, Stockholm, France, art, power, legitimacy, paintings, Davout, Fouché, maréchal, review, Napoleonic, Historical, Society

"The Arming of the Nation" - Speeches by William Pitt 'the Younger', July 1803
Author : PITT 'THE YOUNGER' William
Key-words : pitt, houses of parliament, windam, hawkesbury, defence, mobilisation

'A Harsh, But Necessary, Apprenticeship': New French Accounts and a Previously Unknown Sketch of the Battle of Trafalgar
Author : HICKS Peter
Revue : Trafalgar Chronicle
Number :17
Year : 2007
Pages : 42-52
Key-words : Trafalgar, Hauterive, Dumanoir, Villeneuve, Talleyrand, Napoleon, Times, Nelson

'Palmerston's Follies': a reply to the French 'threat'
Author : HICKS Peter
Key-words : defence, fortifications, martello

“The Great Exhibition and the Little One,” from Household Words
Author : DICKENS Charles, HORNE Richard

«Napoleon's perfect battle», an interview with Jacques Garnier
Author : CHANTERANNE David
Revue : Revue du Souvenir Napoléonien
Number :Numéro Spécial
Month :septembre-octobre-novembre
Year : 2005
Pages : 35-40

150 years ago: 1859
Author : FONDATION NAPOLÉON