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ArticleTHE TREATY OF VIENNA, 14 OCTOBER, 1809The Treaty of Vienna, also known as the Treaty of Schönbrunn, was signed on 14 October, 1809, and ratified by Napoleon one day later, on 15 October. The treaty officially brought to an end France’s war with Austria, although hostilities had ended the day after…
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ArticleContemporary Account of Affairs leading up to the Marriage of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise of AustriaIntroduction Willem Lodewyck Van-Ess’ The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, vol. VIII, (London: M. Jones, 1813) offers English readers the account of events leading up to the marriage between Napoleon I and Marie-Louise, translated into English. Here he picks up the story with the marriage agreed…
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ArticleThe Chinese Expedition: The French Treaty with China, 1860The French treaty The French treaty with China was originally published in the Moniteur Universel of 26 October, 1860.
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ArticleNapoleon’s body is definitely at Invalides!Now that it has been proved that Napoleon suffered for years with gallstones and died as a result of complications from a malignant stomach tumour – without Hudson Lowe or Montholon having to poison him – the Emperor has again been the object of media…
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ArticleEmmanuel Augustin Dieudonné: the real victor of St. Helena“More especially do people esteem the memoirs of any who came, however momentarily, into contact with Napoleon.” Lord Rosebery
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ArticleNapoleon and St Helena, 1815-1816
Chapter 4 of Cockburn and the British Navy in Transition, University of Exeter Press, 1997 Napoleon’s escape from Elba marred the peace to which Cockburn expected to return in May 1815. His flag was retained in commission at Portsmouth and, though he himself returned to his house in Cavendish Square, London, there was every prospect […]
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ArticleThe Poet and the Consul: a late-night conversation at Malmaison
Népomucène Louis Lemercier (1771-1840) was a French dramatic poet. He saw his first literary success –notably for the stage – in the last decade of the 18th century, and he moved in the same circles as Napoleon Bonaparte between 1795 and 1800 – one biographer even went so far as to suggest that it was […]
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ArticleAn account of the Funeral of Napoleon IIIAn extract from The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, Cassell and Company, Ltd 1895, Vol II pages 262-5
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ArticleForward to "Joséphine de Beauharnais, le paradoxe du cygne" by Pierre Branda(translation Peter Hicks)
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ArticleTHE NAPOLEON.ORG BULLETIN n. 783, 18 December 2015 – 7 January 2016
EDITORIAL THE FORM MAY BE (TEMPORARILY) DIFFERENT BUT THE CONTENT REMAINS THE SAMEOur regular readers may have noticed in the last two weeks: delivery of our Newsletter to our subscribers has been somewhat hampered. But let not these technical setbacks be a source of discouragement: Here is the Newsletter, in a somewhat unusual format to […]