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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.…
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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)
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ArticleThe Princess and the would-be First Lady: Two accounts of a meeting in 1822 by Charlotte Bonaparte and Louisa Adams
In 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)
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ArticleBullet Point #7 – How did Napoleon participate in the early 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, March 2018, translation PH)
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ArticleBullet Point #6 – Was Napoleon responsible for the deaths of “millions of soldiers”?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, March 2018, translation PH)
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ArticleCensorship and Literature under Napoleon I
The Napoleonic régime was largely occupied with the elaboration of a system competent to curb the unbridled individualism that the Revolution had evoked, and of which the great Corsican was himself the chief exponent. Such a system could be but slowly elaborated, and it is not strange that it was never fully applied; the parts […]
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ArticleBullet Point #5 – Was the Egyptian Campaign one of Napoleon’s great successes?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, March 2018, English translation by Jenny Spencer with Rebecca Young)
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ArticleInside Line with Éric Teyssier: a genuine social phenomenonLike several thousand Frenchmen and women, I regularly take part in Napoleonic historical rec-enactments. Five or six times a year, in France and Europe, I put on my bearskin of the Grenadier 37th line regiment. Some of our fellow countrymen look condescendingly at these grown-up…