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ArticleBullet Point #4 – Why did Napoleon go to conquer Egypt?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, February 2018, English translation by Rebecca Young)
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Article1812 in musicThe Russian Campaign of 1812 was the driving force behind musical production, not only in France but also elsewhere, including patriotic, sad, and satirical songs. Indeed, it was to be the inspiration for one of the most famous instrumental works in the history of music.…
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ArticleBullet Point #3: Did Napoleon “oppress” the Jews?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, January 2018, English translation by Rebecca Young)
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ArticleBullet point #2: Was Napoleon born French?Every month, the “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, January 2018, English translation by Peter Hicks)
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ArticleWas Napoleonic France a “state based on law”?
Historians in recent times have more or less given up studying the constitutions of the Napoleonic era on the grounds that they were merely window-dressing for the pursuit of personal power. So when modern historians and writers about constitutional law describe the rules by which Napoleonic government worked, they differ from those of the 19th […]
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ArticleBullet Point #1: The death sentences in France under Napoleon I: three times fewer than in England and WalesEvery month, the “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. This month, I am asking myself the question whether, as some still say, Napoleon’s France was “the…
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ArticleAn inventory of the principal plaster death masks of Napoleon in public and private collectionsThis inventory is based on extensive research carried out by Chantal Prévot at the Fondation Napoléon in Paris into the existing death masks known at this date (December 2017) and said to be of Napoleon. She has analysed their supposed provenance and verified the historical…
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ArticleChristmas Selection 2017We have put together a list of Napoleonic prezzies for young and old. Whether you’re an art lover, a military buff, in search of the authentic voice of the Empire period, or wondering what might have happened if destiny had decided otherwise, there’s bound to…
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ArticleThe collapse of the Grand Empire: Introduction to volume 14 of Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte: Leipzig, juillet 1813-décembre 1813
The collapse of the Grand Empire[1] This, the fourteenth volume of our Correspondance Générale begins with hopes for peace but without interrupting war preparations. The ensuing campaign was difficult for Napoleon’s troops, ending with the massive defeat at Leipzig and the first intimations of the invasion of the “Sanctuary of the Nation”, to use Napoleon’s […]
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ArticleThe trials and tribulations of a letter… Napoleon’s farewell to Comte de Las Cases, St Helena, 11 December 1816Amongst the Lowe Papers* held at the French Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris lies a document of major Napoleonic interest, namely, the Emperor’s farewell letter to Emmanuel de Las Cases, future author of the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Like many of the documents related to Napoleon’s final…