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ArticleEnglish translation of an extract from the introduction of Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène. Le manuscrit original retrouvéThis extract from the introduction of the 2017 publication of the recently-discovered 200-year-old manuscript of Emmanuel de Las Cases’s Memorial of St Helena, under the editorial supervision of Thierry Lentz, Peter Hicks, François Houdecek, and Chantal Prévot, Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Le manuscrit original retrouvé, is reproduced…
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ArticleSummer Reading List 2017A selection of publications from the last year to put you in a Napoleonic mood this summer. Have a look at last year’s Summer reading list or our most recent Christmas selection for more ideas.
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ArticleA visit to Longwood
Off St. Helena: Friday, 15th August, 1817 Copied by his great-grand-daughter, M.C. Bernard, from the diary of Lieut. Herbert John Clifford, R.N, 1817 [written on board H.M. sloop Lyra on the homeward voyage from China, whither the Lyra had gone with Lord Amherst’s embassy.] We arrived at St. Helena late in the afternoon of the 11th […]
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ArticleLetter from Mrs Catherine Younghusband to her aunt (St Helena, 4 January 1816) including an account of a new-year dinner with Napoleon.What follows is a first-hand account of dinner with Napoleon at Longwood House in the new year of 1816. This dinner was not recorded by Las Cases in the Memorial. The authoress, Catherine, was the wife of a military man on the island, Robert Younghusband.…
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ArticleChristmas Selection 2016There’s a bumper crop of new publications this year, so there’s bound to be something for all tastes and budgets. Check out this year’s new section: Audiobooks! For even more choice, have a look at our Summer Selection 2016 or last years selections: Summer 2015, Christmas 2015.
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ArticleAlone, already so alone (introduction to Volume XIII of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte)This is the English translation of Pierre Branda’s introduction to Volume XIII of the Correspondance générale de Napoléon Bonaparte.
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Article160 YEARS AGO : The great floods of 1856
Introduction Late May- early June 1856 was marked in France by a sudden and massive rise is the water levels of major French rivers. The flood of 1856 went down as one of the major floods in the history of France. Exceptional rise in water levels From 29 May, 1856, local authorities began to be alarmed: […]
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ArticleSummer Reading List 2016We’ve made a selection of recently-published (or just re-published books) concerning the First and Second Empires that should slip easily into your luggage or your bag to while away those spare moments this summer. And there’s plenty more to choose from in last Summer’s Reading…
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ArticleLOUISIANA: TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT…In the 18th century, Louisiana was not just today’s smallish southern state bordered by the Mississippi on one side and Texas on the other. It encompassed the modern states of Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana itself, and parts…
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ArticleTHE DIGGING OF THE SUEZ ISTHMUS
The first canal joining the Red Sea to the Nile and from there, via the Eastern branch of the so-called Pelusian river, to the Mediterranean, was dug around 2,000 B.C. on the orders of Pharaoh Ramses I. It was a mediocre work allowing the passage of light sail boats, either pulled along by horses or […]