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ArticleSummer Reading List 2018Looking for something Napoleonic to pop into your suitcase this summer? Take your pick from the latest books below or check out last year’s list or indeed our 2017 Christmas bag – there’s bound to be something to suit your mood. -
ArticleBullet Point #13 – Why did Napoleon decide to centralise French administration?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, June 2018, translation PH) -
ArticleBullet Point # 12 – Was Napoleon into fine dining?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, June 2018, translation PH) -
ArticleBullet Point # 11 – Did Napoleon really do anything in the meetings to create the Code civil?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, May 2018, translation PH) -
ArticleBullet Point # 10 – Which, in his own opinion, was Napoleon’s proudest achievement??Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, April 2018, translation PH) -
ArticleFrançois Houdecek, a life dedicated to NapoleonNothing predestined this strategy-game enthusiast to become one of the best specialists of social military history of the First Empire. François Houdecek has found his place in the academic community above all by being the pivot of Napoleon’s Correspondance Générale, published by the Fondation Napoléon.… -
ArticleIntroduction to Volume 15 of Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte: Les chutes, 1814- 1821
Right from the outset we knew that our publication of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Correspondance Générale was going to end with a less glorious – but in many respects moving – chapter of his extraordinary career. This final volume covers the “dark” years of 1814 to 1821, moving from the French Campaign to St Helena, with, symbolically, […]
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ArticleBullet Point #9 – Why did Napoleon bring back slavery?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, April 2018, translation PH) -
ArticleThe Princess and the would-be First Lady: Two accounts of a meeting in 1822 by Charlotte Bonaparte and Louisa AdamsIn the late summer of 1822 in Bordentown New Jersey, USA. , two influential women – Charlotte Bonaparte and Louisa Adams – crossed paths. In the weeks that followed, these two women were to become well-acquainted and spent much time in each other’s company. With remarkable serendipity, both Charlotte and Louisa wrote independently of their time spent […]
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ArticleBullet Point #8 – Did Napoleon “end” or “finish” the Revolution?Each “Bullet Point” will confront a question related to the First Empire. My remarks are designed to form the basis for debate and, I hope, research. (Thierry Lentz, April 2018, translation PH)