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ArticleChristmas Selection 2015
Military History LEGGIERE Michael V., Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany: The Franco-Prussian War of 1813. Volume 1. The War of Liberation BAKER-SMITH Veronica, Wellington’s Hidden Heroes: The Dutch and the Belgians at Waterloo THOMPSON Dr Mark S Albuera. The Fatal Hill: The Allied Campaign in Southern Spain in 1811 and the Battle of Albuera […]
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ArticleMONSIEUR N, FILM BY ANTOINE DE CAUNES (2003)A well-devised plot, an appealing hypothesis (but we're not saying anything ...) that reworks the question intelligently, a great and beautiful film.
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ArticleGathering warcloudsIntroduction to Volume XI of the Correspondance Générale de Napoléon I, Fayard, 2015
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ArticleA physical description of Napoleon and Josephine in 1798, eyewitness accounts by Alexander Wilhelm von Humboldt
Napoleon [Dated Tuesday 26 December (6 Nivôse)] I was attending the First Class at the Institut National when Bonaparte arrived, he having been accepted as a member of the institute the day before [5 Nivôse, ed.]. He arrived with Lacepède, the president, roughly in the middle of the session and his presence had no effect […]
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ArticlePRESS RELEASE: Lucca città napoleonica: firmato il protocollo di intesa tra Comune e associazione “Napoleone ed Elisa: da Parigi alla Toscana”
Lucca, 22 ottobre 2015Lucca Napoleonica: firmato il protocollo di intesa tra Comune di Lucca e associazione “Napoleone ed Elisa: da Parigi alla Toscana”. Il sindaco di Lucca, Alessandro Tambellini, e la presidente dell'associazione culturale napoleonica Roberta Martinelli, che dal 2002 porta avanti un filone di studi di livello internazionale sui napoleonidi a Lucca e in […]
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ArticleFrench Department Stores during the Second EmpireDuring the Second Empire in France, commercial sales premises grew to become temples of shopping for the urban middle classes. The first, and perhaps the most emblematic of these “grands magasins” or department stores, was “Le Bon Marché”, which opened in 1852, to be followed thirteen…
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ArticleWhy St Helena?After the defeat of Waterloo the Allies were naturally concerned what would happen to Napoleon Bonaparte. The Emperor managed to leave the battlefield and return to Paris where he hoped to play a political role. The main priority of the Allies was to bring peace…
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ArticleOctober 1865: The Biarritz MeetingsThe meeting between Napoleon III and Bismarck has often has often been wrongly depicted as a leisurely stroll along the beach in Biarritz. In reality it took the form of a series of meetings, the content of which was revealed in a contemporary report -…
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ArticleExtract from the diary of John R. Glover, secretary to rear Admiral Cockburn (on board "Northumberland") 1815The full text of Glover’s account of “Napoleon’s last voyage” is available for download on our online digital library.
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ArticleLetter from Paris by John Cam Hobhouse, an Englishman resident during the last reign of the Emperor Napoleon
Extract from John Cam Hobhouse, Letters from Paris by an Englishman at Paris during the last reign of the Emperor Napoleon LETTER XXXVII. Thursday, July 20. [1815] On the day the allies occupied the barriers, it was notified that Napoleon had passed through Niort on the morning of the 2nd of July, and three days […]