Bibliographies

Writer, historian, publisher, entrepreneur and driving force within the Napoleonic world for half a century, Jacques Jourquin died on November 14th. His youthful looks (before his illness) belied his 86 years, and indeed given his tireless activity he could easily have been mistaken for someone…

Anon. [but Michaud, Joseph François], France, after the Revolution of Bonaparte, on the Eighth of November, 1799, Hastily translated from a French Pamphlet, entitled ‘Les adieux à Bonaparte’, London: J. WRIGHT, Piccadilly, 1800, online here Bainville, Jacques, Napoleon, (trans. Hamish Miles), Boston: Little, Brown, and company, 1933, “Brumaire” Bonaparte, Lucien, Memoirs of the Private and […]

Memoirs Marie Walewska’s Memoirs: 3 versions – Version 1: belonging to the Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski. Private collection. English and French versions available online at http://www.walewski.org/upload//File/Journal_de_Marie_Walewska_version_anglaise.pdf (English) and at http://www.walewski.org/upload//File/Journal_de_Marie_Walewska_version_francaise.pdf (French). – Version 2: belonging to the Count d’Ornano and held at the Chateau la Branchoire (Touraine), private collection. – Version 3: Pamiętnik Marii Walewskiej (Marie […]

This bibliography forms part of our close-up on: the Mexican campaign, 1862-1867. History Arturo Arnaiz y Freg, Claude Bataillon, La intervenecion francesa y el imperio de Maximiliano, Asociacion Mexicana de historiadores/Institut français d’Amérique latine, 1965 Jean Avenel, La campagne de Mexique : 1862-1867 : la fin de l’hégémonie européenne en Amérique du Nord, Paris: Economica, […]

This bibliography is part of our close-up on: the birth of the Roi de Rome. All links are external. Articles Aubry, Octave, “Le Roi de Rome”, in Revue de études napoléoniennes [35] XXIe année, Tome XXXV, juil.-déc. 1932, pp. 409-411 Chailloux, David, “La naissance du roi de Rome et sa représentation à l’Académie impériale de […]

Articles RINGMAR, Erik, “Liberal Barbarism and the Oriental Sublime: The European Destruction of the Emperor’s Summer Palace”, in Millennium 34, no. 3, 2006, pp. 917-33 (external link) Monographs BEECHING, Jack, The Chinese Opium Wars, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1975 BONNER-SMITH, D., LUMBY, E. W. R. (eds.), The Second China War, 1856-1860, Westport, Conn: Hyperion Press, […]

In French Ceremony descriptions (all links are external and in French) Percier, Charles, & Fontaine, P. F. L., “Description des cérémonies et des fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le mariage de S.M. l’empereur Napoléon avec S.A.I. madame l’archiduchesse Marie-Louise d’Autriche”, P. Didot l’Aîné, 1810 Baltard, Louis-Pierre (drawings), “Fêtes du mariage de Napoléon et de […]

There is yet to be any detailed English language treatment of the complicated history of Napoleon’s annulled marriage. The key work remains Louis Grégoire’s Le « Divorce » de Napoléon et de l’Impératrice Joséphine, an exceptionally thorough study of the annulment process from a canonic law perspective. Monographs D’Haussonville, Comte, L’Eglise romaine et le Premier Empire, 1800-1814, […]

Books in English Ian Castle, Aspern & Wagram 1809: Mighty Clash of Empires, Osprey Publishing, 1994 Vincent J. Esposito & John R. Elting, A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars, London: Greenhill Books, 1999 Gunther E. Rothenberg, Napoleon’s great adversary: archiduke Charles and the Austrian army, 1792-1814, Chalford (GB): Spellmount, 2007 Articles in […]

This bibliography forms part of our close-up on: the Battles of Magenta and Solferino, 1859. History of the Campaign of 1859 A. Blumberg, A carefully planned accident: The Italian war of 1859, London 1990 D. Mack Smith, Cavour and Garibaldi: A Study in Political Conflict, Cambridge 1985 (second ed.) P. Turnbull, Solferino: The Birth of […]